By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.

A synapse is the junction between two neurons that allows a signal to pass between them. Neurons are cells that transmit information between your brain and other parts of the central nervous system.

The brain really is an incredible organ, and neurons are the vital link between, well, everything. The brain is anything but set in stone; how we think, feel, reason, and understand the world changes ...

First, in many cases, individual connections between two neurons are comprised of multiple synaptic contacts, the number varying with the connection type. Second, the synapses that mediate these ...

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most detailed wiring diagram of a piece of mammal brain ever constructed ...

As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to events and the activity ... The traditional view is that the more two neurons ...

LONDON, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Scientists have achieved "a milestone" in neuroscience by constructing the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, thanks in part to data collected from ...