Neurons are cells that transmit information between your brain and other parts of the central nervous system. Synapses are found where neurons connect with other neurons. Synapses are key to the ...

Your nervous system is your body's main communication ... The spaces between these cells are called synapses. The cells are linked to one another through chemicals called neurotransmitters that ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so a different mechanism has to be used. Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent ...

When they are together, just as in the body, these neurons make a connection called a synapse that transmits cold sensory information from the peripheral to the central nervous system neuron when ...

In trying to understand how real nervous systems achieve their remarkable ... of populations of neurons represent things? How are synapse strengths adjusted to learn these representations?

Jennifer Morgan, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, studies how the synapse malfunctions in ...

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 ...

Just like an electrical circuit: How frogs are wired An organism's nervous system is referred to as ... whether in retrograde (backward, from the synapse toward the cell body) or anterograde ...

Recreational drugs can affect neurotransmitters in the reward pathway within the brain. They can act as either agonists or antagonists. Recreational drugs can also stimulate the release of ...