Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Dr. Shigeki Watanabe, have found that axons aren’t the smooth, cylindrical ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

Here are five brain facts that are now brain fiction.

In the olfactory system, the axons of olfactory sensory neurons ... called mitral and tufted cells (M/Ts), have a single dendrite that branches into a single glomerulus, where they make synapses with ...

But this requires the right synapses to be ... without special rules for axon guidance or structural plasticity), and could therefore be exploited even in randomly connected networks. This is ...

An international team of scientists led by Université de Montréal medical professor Frédéric Charron, director of the ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists, who present new evidence that an armlike ...