Genetic defects affecting tiny channels in human nerve cells lead to several neurological diseases that result from aberrant nerve transmission, such as episodic ataxia, absence epilepsy, and ...

A University of Utah study suggests that memories are held in our brains because certain proteins serve as anchors, holding other proteins in place to strengthen synapses, which are connections ...

At first glance, nerve cells would appear to be energy hogs. The brain accounts for only about two percent of a human’s body mass, but burns through 20 percent of its energy budget. But transmitting ...

MICROELECTRODES have been inserted into both pre- and post-junctional elements of certain one-way synapses in the abdominal nerve-cord of the crayfish (Astacus fluviatilis). The pre-synaptic fibres ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. illustration shows a synapse (gap between two nerve cells) where chemical messengers from one cross over to the other In a ...

The original nerve impulse findings were that the rate of impulse firing governed the impact on neuronal targets, whether they be muscle or other neurons. Various labs, including my own, in the 1980s, ...

Researchers may finally have a better explanation for epilepsy, chronic pain and other conditions of the nervous system that have baffled the scientific world for decades. Neurons are the most basic ...

As synapses draw on a limited pool of releasable vesicles 1,2, how fast this pool can be replenished sets the maximal steady-state rate for synaptic transmission. One of the major rate-limiting steps ...

Genetic defects affecting tiny channels in human nerve cells lead to several neurological diseases that result from aberrant nerve transmission, such as episodic ataxia, absence epilepsy, and ...