A study published in Nature Neuroscience has split autism into two distinct biological types based on how the brain wires its ...

A new study on the detriments of too many synaptic connections in the mouse cerebellum by neuroscientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis corroborates previous human ...

To probe for the existence of synaptic connections in brain slices, Triplett and his colleagues at Columbia and UC Berkeley used a technique known as holographic optogenetics, which uses light to ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a fundamental discovery about a key mechanism that enables nervous system ...

This original animation illustrates that presynaptic neurons secrete VLK, which then phosphorylates the extracellular side of ephrin type-B receptor 2 (EphB2) extruding from the membranes of ...