Since there are about 86 billion neurons in the brain, the synapses that connect them look ... scientists to work so hard on an insect wiring diagram, but fruit fly brains actually have quite ...

These diagrams have improved our understanding ... and classified these synapse-rich regions into different brain sections. Synapses were assigned to their respective neuropils based on location ...

At excitatory synapses in the cerebral cortex, the most numerous synapses in our brain, the presynaptic nerve ending contains several tens to a few hundreds of synaptic vesicles filled with the ...

To understand how these brain cells exchange information through their synapses (junctions to exchange chemical 'messages'), the team of Prof. Joris de Wit (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and ...

In addition to larval studies, researchers have also created a comprehensive neuronal wiring diagram of the adult Drosophila brain, which includes around 130,000 neurons and 50 million synapses.