An artificial synapse is a nanoscale electronic or optoelectronic device whose state can be gradually adjusted by input signals, in a way that mimics the tunable, history-dependent connection strength ...
Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...
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MIT discovers 30% of your brain’s synapses are 'silent' — dormant connections waiting until you need to learn something new
Picture every synapse in your brain as a phone line. About 70% of them are live, carrying signals right now. But according to ...
Learning lots of new information as a baby requires a pool of ready-to-go, immature connections between nerve cells to form memories quickly. Called silent synapses, these connections are inactive ...
New research for the first time reveals the function of a little-understood junction between cells in the brain that could have important treatment implications for conditions ranging from multiple ...
The latticework of extracellular protein that surrounds brain cells forms a particularly dense mesh around fast-spiking interneurons. Why do these cells need such thick coats? In the July 17 Nature ...
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A cancer drug called saracatinib just switched failing brain synapses back on in Alzheimer’s mice — memory returned with them
When researchers at Yale gave a shelved cancer drug to old mice whose brains were already riddled with Alzheimer’s-like ...
Researchers discover that rare axo-axonic synapses form a decentralized network of "broker" neurons to drive split-second fly ...
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