Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, ...

Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique that uses RNA “barcodes” to map how neurons connect, capturing thousands ...

To really understand the human brain, scientists say you'd have to map its wiring. The only problem: there are more than 100 trillion different connections to find, trace and characterize. But a team ...

The human brain is a tangled highway of wires emanating from nearly 100 billion neurons, all of which communicate across trillions of junctions called synapses. "Depressingly complex," Harvard ...

Instant synapse visualization with our fluorescence probe. A diagram showing that the fluorescent probe can visualize AMPA receptors on synapses by sprinkling. There are few scientific methods more ...

Neuroscientists discovered that the adult brain contains millions of 'silent synapses' -- immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they're recruited to help form new memories.

A team of physicists from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Sogang University in South Korea have built an artificial synapse, the biological foundation of the human brain's ability to think ...

Just as pruning tree branches helps them grow better, a study has found that appropriately "pruning" neural circuits in the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Scientists have developed a new type of electronic component that demonstrates learning and memory functions like the human brain. The novel "photoferroelectric synapse" device, ...

Our memories are stored in brain connections called synapses. And according to a new Nature study, synapses aren’t permanent structures: They only last as long as the memories they store. The rest of ...