Emerging evidence suggests that lycopene—a natural plant extract—may have antidepressant properties. New research published ...

The entorhinal cortex (EC) plays a pivotal role in memory function and spatial navigation, connecting the hippocampus with the neocortex. The EC integrates a wide range of cortical and subcortical ...

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears ...

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 ...

Brain cells receive signals of thousands other brain cells via synaptic connections. These positive and negative signals are processed in the dendrites and determine the activity of the receiving ...

Department of Materials Science, National Engineering Lab for TFT-LCD Materials and Technologies, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China ...

This month's cover highlights the article A novel bacterial effector protein mediates ER-LD membrane contacts to regulate host lipid droplets by Stacey D. Gilk, Rajendra Angara and Arif Sadi. The ...

For instance, it is not clear what the justification for the choice of synaptic time scales are (with E synaptic time constants being larger than inhibition: tau_syn_i = 10 ms, tau_syn_E = 30 ms). How ...