How neurons communicate with each other at synapses. Chemical vs. electrical synapses.

A single axon can have multiple branches, allowing it to make synapses on various postsynaptic cells. Similarly, a single neuron can receive thousands of synaptic inputs from many different …

This video discusses synapses, where neurons communicate with target cells. It differentiates between two types of synapses: chemical and electrical. It also explains the role of the …

La plupart des synapses sont dites chimiques, car les neurones communiquent à l'aide de messagers chimiques. Il existe des synapses électriques, où les ions circulent directement …

There actually are certain neurons where there isn't any gap--electrical synapses connect directly because electrical signals cannot travel through a gap. Chemical synapses need the synaptic …

Pereda A. E. "Electrical Synapses and Their Functional Interactions with Chemical Synapses." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 15 (2014): 250-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrn3708 .

And we'll talk more about synapses and those might help trigger other things. So you're saying, what's triggering these things here? Well, this could be the terminal end of other neurons' …

In the article on synapses, we discussed how synaptic transmission works. Here, we’ll focus on neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers released from neurons at synapses so that they …

These connections, known as synapses, are the sites at which information is carried from the first neuron, the presynaptic neuron, to the target neuron (the postsynaptic neuron).

Synapses between neurons are either excitatory or inhibitory – and that all comes down to the neurotransmitter released. Excitatory neurotransmitters cause the signal to propagate - more …