New research from Colorado State University into the ways neurons regulate chemical balance in the brain could provide ...

Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication is disrupted, the brain must rapidly rebalance its internal signaling to ...

Neurons can rapidly rebalance their communication using a structural signal rather than electrical activity, overturning long-held assumptions about how synapses maintain stability.

When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical ...

New research from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences shows that neurons can stabilize their signaling using a fast, physical mechanism — not the electrical activity scientists long ...

A high-speed “zap-and-freeze” method is giving scientists their clearest view yet of how brain cells send messages. By freezing tissue at the instant a signal fires, researchers revealed how synaptic ...

Scientists are beginning to show that learning is not exclusive to neurons and synapses. At the scale of billionths of a ...