A new study on the detriments of too many synaptic connections in the mouse cerebellum by neuroscientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis corroborates previous human ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons. These ...

By recording the electrical activity of one neuron while simulating another using optogenetic tools, neuroscientists can probe the connection between the two neurons. If two neurons are connected by a ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

The detailed mapping revealed an unexpected pattern. One specific section of the dendrite contained an unusually dense ...