Summary: Researchers discovered that gephyrin, a key protein at inhibitory synapses, forms organized filaments that act as the structural basis for postsynaptic densities. This finding overturns ...

Representative cryo-electron microscopy image: a coloured image of the 3D structure of gephyrin, which was calculated from the data. A team of scientists from the University of Cologne’s Institute of ...

Abstract: Artificial synapse with bidirectional inhibitory plasticity is critical for neuromorphic engineering. However, conventional synaptic devices, such as memristors and transistors, typically ...

What are the three modes of neurotransmission, and how do they differ in terms of temporal coupling with action potentials? There are three modes of neurotransmission: stimulation-dependent release ...

In chemical synapses of the central nervous system (CNS), information is transmitted via the presynaptic release of a vesicle (or ‘quantum’) of neurotransmitter, which elicits a postsynaptic ...

In this study, we present a mixed-signal framework that utilizes MRAM (Magneto-resistive Random Access Memory) technology to emulate behaviors observed in biological neural networks on silicon ...

Homeostatic synaptic plasticity mechanisms evolved to keep neuronal firing rates within a physiological range in response to alterations in neural network activity. Similar mechanisms take place ...

School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China ...

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump is considering lifting sanctions on and resuming the sale of fighter jets to Turkey after a conversation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Trump expressed an ...

Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE, Future Technologies), Xiang’an Campus, Xiamen University, Xiang’an South Road, Xiamen 361102, Fujian, China State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid ...