Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition in which affected individuals experience difficulties in social communication and exhibit restricted, repetitive patterns of ...

A new study on the detriments of too many synaptic connections in the mouse cerebellum by neuroscientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis corroborates previous human ...

Synaptic connections between neurons determine the flow of information in the brain. Changes in synaptic weight, along with synapse formation and pruning, reshape the functional connectivity of neural ...

Hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons (PNs) form the largest autoassociative network in the mammalian brain. Whether CA3–CA3 recurrent connectivity is genetically preconfigured or environmentally shaped ...

Researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large ...