Evolution of Understanding Initially, silent synapses were viewed primarily as developmental phenomena, abundant in the developing brain but diminishing with age. Researchers found that up to 80% ...

Evolution of Understanding Initially, silent synapses were viewed primarily as developmental phenomena, abundant in the developing brain but diminishing with age. Researchers found that up to 80% ...

To determine whether the BDNF-dependent regulation of AMPAR and glioma–neuron synapses uses the same mechanisms as those underlying neuronal plasticity, the authors took a variety of approaches ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein's special role in getting ...

Nature. 2019;573 (2019):532-538 Taylor KR, et al. Glioma synapses recruit mechanisms of adaptive plasticity. Nature. 2023;623 (2023):366-374 Korte M, et al. Hippocampal long-term potentiation is ...

Dystroglycan co-localizes with markers of inhibitory synapses. Credit: Communications Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08323-1 ...

The limited knowledge of brain connections hinders the development of effective treatments. With this new map, researchers have identified 139,255 neurons and more than 50 million synaptic ...

Until that point, synapses in the brain had been known only to carry neurotransmitters between neurons, so the discovery of a synapse between neurons and OPCs came as a revelation.