It is necessary for a neuron to bump into another one to form a synapse, but the exploration process is a mix of random guesses and following the trail of chemical signals and markers. Bill Skaggs ...

Learning requires the chemical adaptation of individual synapses. Researchers have now revealed the impact of an RNA-binding protein that is intimately involved in this process on learning and ...

Synaptic pruning is the process in which the brain removes ... with one another using a combination of electrical and chemical signals. Synapses are the places where these neurons connect in ...

Connections, or synapses, between nerve cells are either electrical or chemical. Chemical ones, which are more common in mammals, involve molecules called neurotransmitters, whereas electrical ...

As in any communication process, there is a sender ... that contain messengers and are stored at each synapse to convert electrical signals into chemical signals. Together with scaffolding ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? It all depends on transmission of chemical signals in the brain, carried and released by molecular containers called vesicles. In a new study, researchers ...

According to textbook neuroscience, they form when neighboring brain cells send chemical communications across the synapses ... susceptible to change, a process called memory reconsolidation.

This chemical interaction stabilized the conductive filaments ... of signals based on the timing between electrical pulses - matching how biological synapses process information. When arranged into ...

this process could provide a mechanism by which chemical synapses form preferentially between sister excitatory neurons in ontogenetic columns. We therefore tested whether the selective electrical ...