Sometimes a gentle touch feels sharp and distinct, other times it fades into the background. This inconsistency isn’t just ...

The Inbox of a Neuron These irregular rope-like structures are four individual dendrites. Dendrites are structures that neurons use to receive incoming signals from other cells. The protrusions you ...

The researchers found that within a single neuron, different types of dendrites receive input from distinct parts of the brain, and process it in different ways. These differences may help neurons ...

Rather than only observing each neuron’s activity as a whole, the team also watched individual synapses along each dendrite. They didn’t behave the same way. Synapses on the longer branch closer to ...

In order for a neuron to transmit its own signal, it must first be sufficiently activated by incoming signals from other neurons via its dendrites. Then, an action potential is generated in its ...

The paper "Modification of synaptic-input clustering by intrinsic excitability plasticity on cerebellar Purkinje cell dendrites" appeared on 21 November 2019 in the Journal of Neuroscience, with ...

The dendrite passes on information to the rest of the neuron through bursts of electrical activity. Depending on how the brain is wired up, each dendrite may receive hundreds of thousands of ...

UNIGE researchers have identified a feedback loop from the thalamus to the somatosensory cortex that modulates touch ...

The team chose to study glia, dendrites, and cilia in the nematode C. elegans, a model organism cherished by basic researchers for its straightforward genetics and well-studied biology. An ...