A typical neuron will have thousands of dendrites, with each connecting to an axon of another neuron. The connection is called a synapse but is not a physical one. There is a gap between the ends ...

GSK3 as pleiotropic roles in controlling axon outgrowth depending on the substrates involved. Local inactivation of GSK3 towards primed substrates at distal axons is necessary for efficient axon ...

This important paper takes a novel approach to the problem of automatically reconstructing long-range axonal projections from stacks of images. The key innovation is to separate the identification of ...

Memories are created in a matter of seconds. Researchers now may have begun to uncover how behavioral timescale learning ...

By tapping into the enigmatic theory of how neurons transmit signals, scientists have proven they can one day build computer ...

They discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells. And the movement of the ...

By Alain Cappy, Professor Emeritus of Electronics, University of Lille The brain remains the king of computers. The most ...

Central to this activity are synapses, the junctions where branches of neurons connect, similar to electrical wires. Here, an axon from one neuron links to a dendrite of another. At these synapses, ...