Researchers have captured images of the underlying biological activity within brain cells and their tree-like extensions, or dendrites, in mice that show how their brains sort, store and make ...

Action potentials in the axon and related but different types of electrical impulses in the dendrites are the physical carries of the information coursing through the neuron that then gets passed ...

They saw that dendrites are not always activated when ... Each lit-up structure seen in the images they took indicate a neuron firing action potentials. The activity of these neurons represents ...

Figure 1: Subcellular patch-clamp recording from dendrites and axons of CA3 pyramidal neurons. Figure 2: Action potentials backpropagate into the dendrites of CA3 pyramidal neurons with large ...

Not only were the dendrites firing off action potentials, they were doing so in droves. As the rats slept, the dendrites were chatting away, spiking five times more than the cell bodies from which ...

In contrast, plasticity in basal dendrites was linked to the neuron’s overall output, strengthening or weakening depending on how synapse activity aligned with global action potential firing.

A neuron’s cell body—from which dendrites sprout—is also a computing machine. In another experiment, blocking the cell body’s action slashed signals from basal dendrites but not from apical dendrites.

Knowing that dendrite structure changes correlate with ... and then tracked glia in-action using fluorescence microscopy. Then, to figure out how glia respond to normal and cilia-stunted nematodes ...

In contrast, plasticity in basal dendrites was linked to the neuron's overall output—strengthening or weakening depending on how synapse activity aligned with global action potential firing.

They saw that dendrites are not always activated when ... Each lit-up structure seen in the images they took indicate a neuron firing action potentials. The activity of these neurons represents ...