Excitatory synapses are located in confined chemical spaces called the dendritic spines. These are atypical femtoliter-order microdomains where the behavior of even single molecules may have ...

Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers.

Wenzhou Medical University and collaborating institutions have identified a population of human neural retinal stem-like ...

Neuronal degeneration leading to visual impairment ... This approach allowed them to track photoreceptor activity at synapses ...

Is there a link between age-related macular degeneration and Alzheimer's disease? Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a common eye condition and also a leading cause of vision loss among ...

So, they obtained cochlear samples from adult mice that had normal hearing and were either exposed to psilocin or left untreated and labeled the synapses between cochlear hair cells and auditory ...