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 ...

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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 ...

After calculating synaptic densities originating from Foxp2-V1 and Renshaw cell axons, we estimated the remaining V1 synapses. Plotting the percent ... or they target them sparsely or on distal ...

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 ...