Kiss-and-run sounds like a schoolyard prank, but it is also the informal name for one of four vigorously debated hypotheses about what happens in neurons in the brain before and after they transmit ...

Neurotransmission, or synaptic transmission, corresponds to the movement of signals between neurons, permitting the transmission of information through the proliferation of action potentials. This ...

Synaptic plasticity describes the biological process that enables learning and memory through facilitating changes in the connections between synapses. Interaction with the external world results in ...