A new way to study the role of a critical neurotransmitter in disorders such as epilepsy, anxiety, insomnia, depression, schizophrenia, and alcoholism has been developed. The new method involves ...

New research challenges long-standing ideas on how neurotransmitter gets released at neuronal synapses. In a Neuron article published online October 10th, recent Nobel Laureate Thomas C. Südhof ...

Researchers have constructed a new detailed map of the three-dimensional terrain of a synapse -- the junction between neurons which are critical for communication in the brain and nervous system. The ...

It takes just a few milliseconds: A vesicle, only a few nanometers in size and filled with neurotransmitters, approaches a cell membrane, fuses with it, and releases its chemical messengers into the ...

New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave and change as an organism develops. The new work could help scientists better understand the formation ...

(Nanowerk News) The Tissue Electronics laboratory coordinated by Francesca Santoro of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology-IIT) in Naples (Italy), in collaboration with ...

Artificial synapses are an important step towards emulating the supercomputer that is the human brain. Now scientists have successfully bridged the gap between organic and artificial, with biohybrid ...

Scientists have taken a detailed look at how information is transmitted in the brain, and what they found surprised them: Only a fraction of the synapses that serve as connections seem to be active.

A new way to study the role of a critical neurotransmitter in disorders such as epilepsy, anxiety, insomnia, depression, schizophrenia, and alcohol addiction has been developed by a group of ...