This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

This is the gap between the receiving dendrites of one neuron and the releasing synapse of another. That’s how you get a presynaptic neuron and a postsynaptic neuron. The ‘signals’ that ...

This enzyme degrades monoamine neurotransmitters after their reabsorption into the presynaptic neuron. Drugs called monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), inhibit this enzyme, resulting in an ...

The evidence supporting this claim is compelling, demonstrating that SPNs uniquely integrate sparse input from variable stretches across the barrel cortex. The study would be of interest to basal ...

These techniques allowed them to label specific neuron populations in the mouse spinal cord based on their activity while selectively activating or silencing these groups of neurons. Nocifensive ...

have discovered that a unique trio of medications could hold the key to improved treatment outcomes for hereditary cases of motor neuron disease (MND) caused by mutations in the SOD1 protein.

While membrane-bound neprilysin reduced more amyloid, the secreted neprilysin better protected synapses, as measured by ELISAs for the presynaptic protein synaptophysin and the postsynaptic protein.