In the Alzheimer’s disease brain, synaptic loss correlates with cognitive decline, and is considered a sign of disease progression. But is synaptic loss always bad? Provocative new data from several ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

One of the main goals of neuroscience is to understand how brains learn and remember just by interacting with the environment. Examples of this learning and memory range from how we find our way home ...

Over the past two decades it has become clear that the complement cascade — best known for its roles in innate immunity and in the clearance of pathogens and immune complexes — has distinct functions ...