Brains are bewilderingly complicated systems of connections between neurons. Mapping those connections is an important step in understanding how brains work. Scientists have recently completed the ...

By targeting a malfunction in the mitochondria, these cellular power plants, the researchers achieved remarkable results: restoring many neuron-to-neuron connections in nerve cell models derived from ...

Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing a crucial role for electrical synapses in "filtering" sensory ...

Li’s study, “TIAM1-mediated synaptic plasticity underlies comorbid depression-like and ketamine antidepressant-like actions in chronic pain," was recently published in The Journal of Clinical ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report that extracellular vesicles released into the bloodstream ...

The findings may give vital clues to the exact causes of neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia.