In other words, the probability of finding a synapse between two neurons is not proportional to the number of spatial overlaps between their respective axons and dendrites.

Neurons transmit sensory and mechanical information across synapses and along axons throughout the body via chemical signals and electrical impulses.

Synapses are well-known to occur between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of other neurons, but had never been observed between the neuron's axon and the primary cilium.

It normally ends with a number of synapses connecting to the dendrites of other neurons. Both dendrites and axons are sometimes referred to as nerve fibers. Axons vary in length a great deal.

These signals then travel down long strands of neural tissue called axons.The signals are then received by intricate, branched filaments called dendrites and the junctions at which these ...

In neuroscience, the classic “canonical” type of synapse runs from an axon to a dendrite. Yet, within the mapped larval fly brain, that only accounted for about two-thirds of the connections ...

This has potential for long-term effects facilitated by synapses on cilia provides an insight into an aspect of neuronal communication previously unexplored. Traditional synapses, formed between an ...

Researchers have created the 'largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date,' said Nature ...

Synapses are well-known to occur between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of other neurons, but had never been observed between the neuron's axon and the primary cilium.