How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are ...

Inside each neuron, electrical impulses travel rapidly, while communication between neurons takes place across microscopic gaps called synapses. At these junctions, neurotransmitters like dopamine ...

Synapses come in two different forms: chemical and electrical. 2 Chemical synapses communicate by releasing neurotransmitters—signaling molecules that are stored and released from neurons via synaptic ...

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

Neurons do not actually touch. Each axon produces about 160 different neurotransmitters that cross a minuscule gap, the synapse, to insert themselves in the receptors of dendrites that are ...

Synapses are the connection points where neurons establish contact with each other to transmit information. For this ...

A neuron is a type of cell that specializes in communicating with other cells by sending out chemical signals, called neurotransmitters, into synapses. In the brain, there are 100 trillion ...

the main excitatory synapses in the brain that use the amino acid glutamate as a neurotransmitter. (Signals sent across excitatory synapses increase the activity of the receiving neuron ...

Neurons’ complex structures enable them to receive and transmit signals across synapses. McCabe’s team is interested in a specific part of this structure: the synaptic boutons, zones at the end of ...

They also found that filopodia had neurotransmitter receptors called NMDA receptors, but no AMPA receptors. A typical active synapse has both of these types of receptors, which bind the ...