Researchers at the universities of Freiburg in Germany and Geneva in Switzerland show that even a nap is enough to reorganise connections between nerve cells so that new information can be stored more ...

A new study reveals that even a short nap can rejuvenate the brain, enhancing its ability to learn and retain new information, similarly to a full night's sleep. Researchers found that a brief nap ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons. These ...

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime.

A recent study by scientists from the University Medical School of Freiburg (Germany), the University Hospitals of Geneva ...

The ability to regrow lost synapses can be life changing; for Derek Small, cofounder and CEO of the start-up Syndeio Biosciences, it holds personal relevance. Around a decade ago, Small watched his ...

Researchers are testing a new approach to repair early memory loss by protecting brain connections affected in Alzheimer’s ...

A new study on the detriments of too many synaptic connections in the mouse cerebellum by neuroscientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis corroborates previous human ...

To probe for the existence of synaptic connections in brain slices, Triplett and his colleagues at Columbia and UC Berkeley used a technique known as holographic optogenetics, which uses light to ...