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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Florida Atlantic University study shows that astrocytes, glial cells long viewed as passive, actively influence brain ...

“Astrocytes are really bushy,” Williamson says. They have a complex morphology with lots and lots of micro or nanoscale processes that infiltrate the area surrounding them.

Scientists at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea have discovered a new enzyme, called SIRT2, that may play ...

Study shows that astrocytes in the cortex modulate the dominant behavior of male mice. ... it sheds some light on the specific neural processes through which astrocytes modulate these behaviors.