The sensory organs that allow us to walk, dance and turn our heads without dizziness or loss of balance contain specialized synapses that process signals faster than any other in the human body. In a ...

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D images of the synapse, the important juncture where neurons communicate with each other through an exchange of chemical signals. These nanometer ...

An old insight in neurodegenerative research is that while a given disease is visibly characterized by protein deposits in the brain, synapse loss is what correlates most closely with the disease's ...