Astrocytes use the MEGF10 receptor to prune synapses in the striatum, a process essential for dopamine-driven motor learning.

Dr. Gina Turrigiano is the Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science in the Biology Department at Brandeis University, where she heads the Turrigiano Lab. Dr. Turrigiano completed her undergraduate ...

A new study found that cannabis affects brain development by interacting with CB1 receptors on astrocytes. The findings indicate that disrupting CB1 receptor activity during development, such as via ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

Alto Neuroscience Highlights Invited Review in American Journal of Psychiatry Establishing Neuroplasticity as a Core Driver of Psychiatric Disease and Treatment – The review provides strong scientific ...

Past neuroscience studies suggest that memories of events that occurred at short time intervals from one another are often connected, via a process referred to as memory linking. While memory linking ...

International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity (IMPRS NeuroCom) has the following research output in the current window (1 October 2024 ...

The evidence and concept of adult neurogenesis have been documented in the scientific literature since the 1960s, with research conducted by Altman (1962) and Altman and Das (1965). These studies have ...

Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals. “Our results – together with data from the mammalian brain uncovered by other research groups – ...