Astrocytes use the MEGF10 receptor to prune synapses in the striatum, a process essential for dopamine-driven motor learning.
Loss and dysfunction of synapses have been linked to age-related cognitive decline and observed in Alzheimer's and other ...
When we learn a new motor skill—whether mastering a piano passage or refining balance while walking—the brain must reorganize ...
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 ...
Neurofibrillary tangles, the hallmark of tauopathies, are closely linked to failing cognition. So are tau oligomers, suggest scientists led by Teresa Gómez-Isla at Massachusetts General Hospital in ...
Welcome back to Birdbrained Science! Last time, we touched on the ‘bird’ aspect with migration and today, we’ll cover some brain stuff — let’s talk about pruning. However it happens, we know that once ...
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