Pyramidal neurons have basal and apical dendrites, including an apical tuft. This preserved core structure suggests that they have conserved core functions, whereas structural variation in other ...

A new study published in Science has found that neurons in the brain do not follow a single strategy when learning. Instead, different parts of the same neuron—its upper and lower branches—adjust ...

Any individual neuron’s dendrites might receive neurotransmitter signals from one of many other neurons — and if the excitatory signal is strong enough and then inhibitory signal is not, it ...

We call the type of learning that goes on in neurons plasticity. So the dendrite only learns from impulses where protein synthesis is available — an example of sparse coding. “The RNAs near synapses ...

Xenopus laevis tadpole FLICKR, BIODIVLIBRARY The formation of certain neural circuits may be more simple than once thought, according to a paper published this week (January 8) in The Journal of ...

Synapses are well-known to occur between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of other neurons, but had never been observed between the neuron's axon and the primary cilium.

Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body, and axons carry signals away. In one of many surprise ...

Neurons form synapse clusters ... Clusters of synaptic inputs on dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal cells in mouse visual cortex. eLife, 2016; 5 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.09222; ...

Silent synapses want to make new connections, and if there is new, important information, connections between relevant neurons can get stronger. So, the brain creates new memories without having to ...