Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Changes in the spatiotemporal patterns of the expression of functional CCCs and consequent changes in Cl − regulation underlie major quantitative and qualitative changes in GABAergic signalling that ...

Brain development is associated with the formation of excessive synapses that have to be removed in a controlled and timely manner to achieve refined mature circuitry. Glial cells, including microglia ...

One of the grand strategies nature uses to construct nervous systems is to overproduce neural elements, such as neurons, axons and synapses, and then prune the excess. In fact, this overproduction is ...

Polyinnervation takes place during the first phases of development, creating a great number of synapses. Then, neuronal circuits require the elimination of the excess synaptic contacts established in ...

Specific smells that are encountered during early postnatal development can become hardwired in the mammalian brain if their neural connections to the olfactory bulb ...