The vesicle cycle describes the steps through which neurotransmitters (chemical signals) are released at a synapse (a ...

This review focuses on the molecular organization of excitatory synapses and the processes involved in the dynamic regulation of glutamate receptors.

Data obtained by CTV News from Health Canada shows that 85 per cent of inspections of drug manufacturing sites supplying the ...

EP doesn't even remember that he has a memory problem. That is something he discovers anew every moment. And since he forgets ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Researchers have discovered that newborns have high levels of the tau protein, which is elevated in older people with ...

Roughly one in ten Americans suffers from major depressive disorder (MDD) at any given time. In total, up to 20 percent of ...

Synaptic transmission is the biological process by which a neuron communicates with a target cell across a synapse. Chemical synaptic transmission involves the release of a neurotransmitter from ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Cellular communication between neurons within our brain is complex and busy, much like a USPS mailroom.To keep things running ...

The brain creates the mind through flexible networks. While science maps this connection, significant questions remain, ...

A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.