A new study reveals how young synapses gradually mature to send chemical signals correctly — a process that can take days and depends on neural activity.

The regulation of neuronal excitability and the maintenance of an appropriate balance between excitation and inhibition are central to brain function. Inhibitory synaptic transmission, predominantly ...

A research team has resolved a 50-year-old controversy in neuroscience. By employing a self-developed, time-resolved ...

Nervous system functions, from motion to perception to cognition, depend on the active zones of neural circuit connections ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are transmitted between nerve cells using molecular containers called vesicles. Now, ...

Millisecond ‘kiss and run’ exchange – captured in a China lab on the world’s first camera equipped to do it – solves a ...

In a study published in Science on October 17, a team led by Prof. BI Guoqiang from the University of Science and Technology of China/Shenzhen ...