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

Neuron Function Synapses Neural synapses are junctions between neurons that permit neural communication. Synapses come in two different forms: chemical and electrical. 2 Chemical synapses communicate ...

A two-day symposium on chemical neurobiology revealed an open frontier for researchers at the interface of chemistry and neuroscience. The Nature Chemical Biology symposium series was designed to ...

To understand how these brain cells exchange information through their synapses (junctions to exchange chemical 'messages'), ...