Chemical synapses are biological junctions through which neurons' signals can be sent to each other and to non-neuronal cells such as those in muscles or glands. Chemical synapses allow neurons to ...

New research reveals the most complete map of the brain, including microscopic details from 140,000 neurons, millions of ...

Synapses are subcellular microcompartments that are essential for a digital form of transneuronal communication, mediated by chemical mediators termed neurotransmitters. At excitatory synapses in ...

A team of scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s The BRAIN Initiative, including Davi Bock, Ph.D., ...

For instance, the latest connectome shows only how neurons connect through chemical synapses, across which molecules called neurotransmitters send information. It doesn’t offer any information ...

They created a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse map of the brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). It ...

A new neural map of the fruit fly brain reveals 140,000 neurons and 54.5 million synapses, providing key insights into its ...

Previous researchers have mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and the brain of a larval fruit fly, which had 3,000 neurons, but the adult fruit fly is several orders of ...

Normally, these connections, called synapses, need an additional chemical messenger to bridge communications, and they’re only one-way. In contrast, the networks formed in the bot could transmit data ...