Like so much else in nature, the human visual system has both a complex structure and functional efficiency that is difficult ...
When researchers at Yale gave a shelved cancer drug to old mice whose brains were already riddled with Alzheimer’s-like ...
Picture every synapse in your brain as a phone line. About 70% of them are live, carrying signals right now. But according to ...
Researchers develop LinCx, a biological "wire" that creates precision electrical bypasses in the brain to restore function ...
The brain’s nerve cells communicate by firing messages to one another through junctions called synapses, and problems with those connections are linked to disorders like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy. Now ...
New research for the first time reveals the function of a little-understood junction between cells in the brain that could have important treatment implications for conditions ranging from multiple ...
Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...