Sleep's role to down-scale glutamate, excitatory, frontal cortical synapses is extended to include an up-scaling of metaplastic LTP potential, in recovery from prolonged waking induced saturation of ...

The SYNGAP1 gene, which supports the production of a protein called SynGAP (Synaptic Ras GTPase-Activating Protein), is known ...

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Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

In contrast, Neurexin-2 has been shown to restrict excitatory synapse formation, indicating that different neurexins can have opposing roles in synaptic dynamics[4]. Moreover, neuroligin-3 ...

Furthermore, changes in efficacy at excitatory synapses are thought to underlie many forms of adaptive behavior, including learning and memory. In the last few years, several studies using ...

The ultimate effect of a signal from one neuron on the next neuron depends on the function of the synapse, which is based on the type of neurotransmitter released. Excitatory synapses send signals ...

Research indicates that following the onset of an acquired brain injury (ABI), the brain initiates an immediate ...

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 ...

Together these results show increased excitability in trained KO mice compared to naïve KO mice, most likely due to increase in the number of excitatory synapses and the recruitment of AMPAR to ...