As discussed above, the dendritic spines represent one of the most interesting ... we will soon be able to reconstruct the function of a synapse and causally connect the networks of chemical ...

Figure 7: Amplitude of smallest dendritic events shows little dependence on synapse location ... neurones from the rat hippocampus: II. Spine distributions . J. Comp. Neurol.

and at the end of each dendritic spine is the synapse—a tiny space where the two cells meet, and an electrochemical signal is transmitted. Different synapses are activated to send different ...

Neuroscientists have long speculated that information storage would likely be more permanent if changes in synaptic strength were accompanied by some sort of morphological alteration in the brain, in ...