Electrical and chemical synapses shape the dynamics of neural networks, and their functional roles in information processing have been a longstanding question in neurobiology. In this paper, we ...

Comments by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US Health and Human Services secretary, sparked talk about whether antidepressants are as ...

Although the mechanism of problem-solving in sleep is uncertain, theories such as memory reactivation and reorganization ...

As a neurologist at the forefront of research into Alzheimer's disease, I have worked with people who have managed to stop ...

The chemical system that selective serotonin reuptake ... “They’re increasing the amount of time that serotonin spends in the synapse of the brain,” he added. Antidepressants accomplish ...

However, most optoelectronic synapses rely primarily on physical processes while missing chemical-electric synaptic processes critical for mimicking more realistic brain-inspired functionality. The ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly ...

in which an electrical signal triggers the release of neurotransmitters at a synapse, which in turn triggers a new electrical signal in the proceeding neuron, and so on. However, neurotransmitter ...

International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) researchers have developed a neuromorphic photonic semiconductor neuron ...

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.

New structural markers of memory storage uncovered by Scripps Research may pave the way for new treatments for memory loss.