A new study by Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct transmission sites—not a shared site—to achieve different types of ...
How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are transmitted between nerve cells using molecular containers called vesicles. Now, ...
When Aβ aggregates stoke synaptic fires, tau tangles put them out. This phenomenon, demonstrated in animal models, now gains support in a human study, published September 18 in Nature Neuroscience.