The paper is titled "Focal clusters of peri-synaptic matrix contribute to activity-dependent plasticity and memory in mice." The work stems from a collaboration between the Harvard Medical School ...

Synaptic transmission is the biological process by which a neuron communicates with a target cell across a synapse. Chemical synaptic transmission involves the release of a neurotransmitter from ...

Synaptic efficacy is a basic concept in neuroscience for which we have an intuitive definition — the capacity of a presynaptic input to influence postsynaptic output. Similarly, we have an ...