Researchers from Bonn and Japan have found that the sharing of proteins and calcium makes synaptic plasticity a collective ...

The laboratory of Ege Kavalali, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, published a paper in Nature ...

Two major forms of synaptic plasticity, long-term potentiation ... both LTP and LTD can occur at the same synapse in response to different patterns of activation of NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate ...

Hebb's synapse is not his only legacy ... knowledge about the molecular and cellular events underlying synaptic plasticity into a real understanding of learning and memory. For a more detailed ...

Given their importance in brain function, it is not surprising that improper synapse development and plasticity have been implicated in a wide range of neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric, and ...

A single neuron can have tens of thousands of synapses, allowing it to talk to thousands of other brain cells. These connections mediate information flow through the brain, and the plasticity of ...

If so, their precision of plasticity is high. The Salk team applied concepts from information theory to analyze synapse pairs ...

Neuronal outgrowth, regeneration, synapse formation and plasticity are pivotal not only for normal brain development and function, but also for brain repair after injury or degeneration. The primary ...

This remarkable plasticity enables them to function both rapidly and effectively in a wide variety ... CTLs and NK cells kill by forming a stereotyped interface with their targets, known as a ...