When we learn a new motor skill—whether mastering a piano passage or refining balance while walking—the brain must reorganize the circuits that control movement. For decades, this process of synaptic ...

Astrocytes use the MEGF10 receptor to prune synapses in the striatum, a process essential for dopamine-driven motor learning.

HOUSTON - (July 29, 2009) – Recycling is a critical component in the process of transmitting information from one neuron to the next, and a large protein called Tweek plays a critical role, said an ...

Groundbreaking substance use disorder (SUD) research sheds light on how the brain is rewired via synaptic plasticity when drug-seeking behavior becomes habitual and how the addiction-extinction ...