Some of the brain's most remarkable feats such as learning and memory, are thought to emerge from elementary properties of chemical synapses. The distinctive feature of these synapses is that the action potential in the ...

Events in our everyday life are encoded as memories that can be consciously recollected and remembered, although our ability to retrieve the specific details associated with these events diminish with time. Such losses ...

Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) is implicated in several functions in neurons, but the altered processing of APP in synapses holds a key to understanding the onset of the molecular progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by impaired memory and other cognitive deficits. Even though the genes associated with familial AD were discovered more than three decades ...

Saccades are rapid eye movements that we continually make (about 2-3 times per second) to look around and scan our visual environment. Though we effortlessly execute saccadic eye movements all the time, they are not just ...

Our interactions with the world often entail a wide range of multi-jointed movements. We are bestowed with an abundant degree of freedom, that a movement can be achieved by recruiting multiple joints, muscles, and neural ...

Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) play important roles in neurons, contributing to nervous system development, synapse formation and plasticity. A subset of CAMs, Claudins, known for their roles at tight junctions, remain ...