As animals experience new things, the connections between neurons, called synapses, strengthen or weaken in response to events and the activity they cause in the brain. Neuroscientists believe that ...

We rely on synaptic plasticity—the strengthening and modulation of connections between these neurons—to facilitate learning and memory. Synapses, or the junctions where neurons communicate, lay the ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Kaushik Chanda is a postdoctoral researcher at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology (Scripps Research). He studies how long non-coding RNAs drive structural ...

In the cerebral cortex, numerous neurons exchange information through junctions known as synapses. The strength of each synaptic connection changes depending on the activity levels of the neurons ...

Neuromorphic sensors leverage brain signaling principles for proprioceptive sensing, achieving low power consumption and rapid environmental responsiveness.

A soft electronic device built to mimic a brain synapse repairs itself after being cut in half, recovering most of its electrical function and memory within a day. Each capability exists separately.