synapse
New learning was found to occur with the construction of synaptic connections between brain cells.
He won the Nobel Prize in 2000 for investigations of synaptic activity that occurred during reflex learning in sea snails.
What if larger human brain size is just a side effect of evolutionary selection for prolonged synaptic plasticity during human childhood?
Memories form when new synapses are created between brain cells, or when old synaptic links are strengthened.

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synaptic
A portion of the transmitters (factor r) returns from the synaptic cleft into the presynaptic hair cell.
The authors review evidence indicating that dynamic structural interactions between astrocytes and synapses affect hippocampal synaptic physiology, behavior, and disease.
If so, focal paroxysmal activity would spread rapidly and simultaneously in the cortex and thalamus using synaptic pathways.
Axonal plus synaptic delays are 2.0 ms in both directions.
We have now demonstrated that prenatal inflammation suffices to induce deferred glutamatergic synaptic dysfunction in adult.
Important groups of molecules associated with essential functions, including energy and oxygenation, neuroplasticity, and cell signaling from synaptic to intracellular communication, exhibited altered transcription patterns.
Evidence that vesicles on the synaptic ribbon of retinal bipolar neurons can be rapidly released.
However, little is known about which calcium channels are coupled to synaptic exocytosis of glycine, which is primarily released by amacrine cells.
It is possible, therefore, that reduced synaptic pruning (and therefore, elevated glucose metabolism) will be a symptom shared by several different groups with developmental disorders.
An important example might be a neural network in which both synaptic and propagation delays contribute to its dynamic behavior.
Spontaneous synaptic activity was persistent during carbenoxolone application, indicating that chemical transmission onto these neurons was intact and only electrical transmission was disrupted.
Downregulation might result in a decrease in glutamate uptake and a subsequent increase in excitatory synaptic transmission.
Clearance of glutamate in the synaptic cleft depends on passive diffusion and active uptake by glutamate transporters.
The vertical axis represents normalized synaptic action density at centimeter scales.
Corticomotoneuronal projections: synaptic events related to skilled movement.
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