For the first time, researchers identified the function of the CASKIN2 protein, which plays a key role in precise signal ...

A new study has revealed how tau – a microtubule-binding protein that is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease – weakens transmission across synapses in the brains of mice When injected into presynaptic ...

Vertebrate lonesome kinase mediates a key interaction between neurons involved in injury-induced pain and helps explain ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

Transmission across a synapse (IMAGE) Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Caption When an electrical signal arrives at the presynaptic terminal, neurotransmitters ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

The brain really is an incredible organ, and neurons are the vital link between, well, everything. The brain is anything but set in stone; how we think, feel, reason, and understand the world changes ...