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 ...

Wishing and hoping will not lead to neurons firing, axons being wrapped by myelin, synapses being activated, or neuronal assemblies being formed. ... “It’s the brain’s electrical ‘chatter’, or axon-to ...

Over the course of life, memory fades with varying degrees, robbing older people of the ability to recollect personal experiences. This progressive, nearly inevitable process has long been ...

Mice with human-like Foxp2 also had longer dendrites — the slender extensions that help neurons form synapses — in the striatum, which is involved in habit formation as well as motor control. In the ...

Synapses are junctions where neurons communicate with each other. ... Sometimes, fruit fly neurons send messages from axon-to-axon, dendrite-to-dendrite, or dendrite-to-axon.

As a primer, a neuron comes down to two parts: axon and dendrite. A textbook synaptic connection flows from axon to dendrite, but these researchers saw synapses that went against the grain.

Scientists created a map of an entire larval fruit fly brain that shows all 548,000 synapses in the organ. Skip to ... dendrite-to-dendrite and dendrite-to-axon connections make up about one ...

MIT 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 ...

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 ...

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.