The vision driving the project is that valuable ideas for the treatment of stroke patients could result from accurate predictions of synapse formation. If doctors knew how the brain structure of a ...

Oligodendrocyte precursor cells comprise about 5% of all cells in the brain—meaning the synapses they form with neurons could be relevant to many disease conditions, including the formation of ...

Before a person is even born, the brain has undergone intense expansion and growth in its complexity. This dramatic development continues ... these connections, or synapses, is called synaptogenesis.

When growth cones reach their synaptic targets, they must both send and receive signals in order to promote formation of mature synapses ... also expressed in the brain, and the presence of ...

It’s no hidden health secret that sleep is really good for us. It helps our immune systems and supports almost every organ ...

According to the study, sleep deprivation affected synapse formation in young animals ... Building good sleep habits for long ...

These are present in human cell linings and in the neurons in brain. Scientists have only recently begun to understand the importance of these channels. Creating these structures artificially could be ...

Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science are taking creative approaches with a super-resolution microscope to ...

Neuronal outgrowth, regeneration, synapse formation and plasticity are pivotal not only for normal brain development and function, but also for brain repair after injury or degeneration. The primary ...

The development of the nervous ... embryonic and postnatal mouse brain. Brain function requires the formation of diverse and specific synapses. The authors show that the molecular code specifying ...