The dentate gyrus is one of only two areas in the brain where new neurons are formed continuously in adults through a process called neurogenesis. When a new granule cell neuron is formed in the ...
It appears that new cells compete to ‘win’ synapse connections away from old cells, which promotes network plasticity. Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, Ph.D. One goal in neurobiology is to understand how the ...
In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists determine that schizophrenia-associated mutations in synapse-associated protein 97 (SAP97) cause an extreme increase in glutamatergic ...