Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

A team of scientists from the University of Cologne's Institute of Biochemistry has made a decisive discovery about the molecular basis of synapse formation in the central nervous system. They studied ...

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 ...

Exosome-associated THSD7A is identified as a key trigger of filopodia formation in cancer cells and neurons, revealing a ...

Expansion microscopy image with synaptic boutons (green) of climbing fibers on a Purkinje cell (blue) from the cerebellum of a mouse. The Institute of Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish ...

The storage and retrieval of information encoded in the nervous system are often accompanied by morphological changes in the participating neurons. During brain development, neurite elongation and ...

The detailed mapping revealed an unexpected pattern. One specific section of the dendrite contained an unusually dense ...