Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining ...

Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting millions of people worldwide. Published in the Journal of Neuroscience, new research from the ...

In a rat model of chronic heart failure, Xijiaqi Formula improved cardiac indices and rescued learning/memory deficits while suppressing glial activation and enhancing synaptic plasticity markers via ...

Researchers from the lab led by Prof. Joris De Wit (VIB-KU Leuven) have discovered an important clue to how connections between brain cells, known as synapses, mature. These new findings, published in ...

Neurodegenerative disease profoundly affects structures and pathways responsible for memory, cognition, and higher-order ...

The screen worked, flagging expected cancer genes. But it also kept returning something that seemed impossible: genes for synapses, glutamate receptors, and neural signaling pathways. “We absolutely ...

The schematic illustrates biological synaptic transmission (action potential–presynaptic stimulation–channel opening–neurotransmitter release–postsynaptic current) and its electronic emulation: a ...