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

Adolescence may be far more than a period of pruning away unused brain connections. New research suggests the teenage brain ...

Scientists uncover new synapse hotspots in the teen brain, challenging the old theory of synaptic pruning and its link to schizophrenia.

The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the smallest scales, erasing information is not free, it consumes energy and ...

The human brain grows in size and creates new neural pathways during the first nine years of life, which begin at birth. The brain develops two main structures during this period, because gray matter ...

This image shows densely accumulated dendritic spines. Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously ...

Researchers are uncovering how disrupted glutamatergic synapses drive diverse forms of intellectual disability, revealing new ...