Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA ...

Memories are created in a matter of seconds. Researchers now may have begun to uncover how behavioral timescale learning ...

Central to this activity are synapses, the junctions where branches of neurons connect, similar to electrical wires. Here, an axon from one neuron links to a dendrite of another. At these synapses ...

In neurons, various activities occur within distinct subcellular compartments, such as axons, dendrites ... reach and wrap ...

This enables them to gently, but snugly, wrap around highly curved axons and dendrites. “It is possible to very finely control the diameter ... “This work is an exciting step toward new symbiotic ...

These battery-free, subcellular-sized devices, made of a soft polymer, are designed to gently wrap around different parts of neurons, such as axons and dendrites, without damaging the cells ...

Three key points should be emphasised: Seizures emerge rapidly from normal brain states and usually self-terminate; the time scale of onset and offset of a seizure is orders of magnitude faster than ...

Target selection is the process by which axons selectively target other cells for synapse formation. Synapses are structures which enable electrical or chemical signals to pass between nerves. While ...

This enables them to gently, but snugly, wrap around highly curved axons and dendrites. “It is possible to very finely control the diameter ... “This work is an exciting step toward new symbiotic ...

Each dendrite can have thousands of small protrusions called spines. The head of each spine can form a contact point called a synapse to receive an impulse sent from the axon of another neuron.

This image shows the researchers' subcellular-sized devices, which are designed to gently wrap around different parts of neurons, such as axons and dendrites, without damaging the cells.