Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Dr. Shigeki Watanabe, have found that axons aren’t the smooth, cylindrical ...

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This study provides important morphological observations related to the potential roles of Hebbian plasticity in establishing brain connectivity, by examining synapses formed by functionally distinct ...

The three best examples of ion channel/receptor clustering in the nervous system are found at the synapse, the node of Ranvier, and the axon initial segment (AIS). In the case of the synapse, the ...

This process happens more readily with axons, synapses, neurons and glia in the peripheral nervous system. Whole-brain anatomical and activity surveys identify the lateral hypothalamus as a key ...

A groundbreaking study involving neuroscientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria and the Max Planck ...

The activated axon releases chemical messengers called ... This process is driven by synaptic plasticity. Synapses are gaps between neurons that facilitate the transfer of information.

At the synapse, a chemical substance is produced at the end of the axon of one nerve cell that reaches the other nerve cell through the dendrite. Thus, information is transmitted from one nerve ...

These signals get transmitted through the granule cells’ axons—their arm-like extension, known as mossy fibers. These fibers form a contact point to pyramidal cells—the mossy fiber synapse. At this ...