Whether picking up a small object like a pen or coordinating different body parts, the cerebellum in the brain performs essential functions for controlling our movement. Researchers investigated how a ...

Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...

How can we ensure Synapse is the last instance when a middleware banking-as-a-service (BaaS) partnership implodes? Millions of Americans use neobank accounts to hold their deposits and make payments, ...

Jelena McWilliams, bankruptcy trustee for Synapse Financial and former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said the bankruptcy of the fintech middleware firm in April has been "devastating" ...

U.S. financial disasters often emerge from overheated markets that become far too enamored with shiny new financial instruments. A June 6 report by the trustee in the bankruptcy of the financial ...

Scientists have discovered millions of so-called silent synapses in the adult brain, immature links between neurons that are dormant until they are needed for the formation of new memories. It had ...

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D images of the synapse, the important juncture where neurons communicate with each other through an exchange of chemical signals. These nanometer ...

Electron microscope image of neurons in the cerebellum. This slice through the cells in the cerebellum shows a dendritic branch of a Purkinje cell and its side arms (yellow) receiving several ...