Synapses are small gaps between neurons through which signals are transmitted. This transmission of signals is what allows ...

New research highlights how astrocytes, long considered mere support cells, actively shape brain network dynamics.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have unraveled the processes that give astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell in the brain, their special bushy shape, which is fundamental for brain ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have unraveled the processes that give astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell in the brain, their special bushy shape, which is fundamental for brain ...

Smith and co-authors point to evidence that astrocytes may play a key role in this process. Previous research has shown astrocytes sense the moment neurons send a message and can simultaneously ...

For years neuroscientists have focused on the brain’s neurons as its principal creators of memory and thought. But what if the reason for our cognitive abilities isn’t in the electrical activity of ...

The Jackson Lab Research Project 1: Generation and termination of calcium signals in astrocytes. Like neurons, astrocyte processes are decorated with receptors and transporters for numerous ...

How astrocytes help the brain process information Date: September 12, 2019 Source: VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) Summary: New research reveals that noradrenaline plays a key role ...

Here, the authors imaged calcium response in the mouse olfactory bulb in vivo to show that the calcium transients in astrocytic processes—but not cell bodies—are tightly coupled to neuronal ...