Synaptic plasticity articles from across Nature Portfolio

Induction of behavioural time scale plasticity leads to dendritic, delayed and stochastic Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent kinase II activation, findings that clarify the mechanisms that underlie place cell formation.

Adrenal activity is crucial for glucose release during stress, yet whether it is necessary for rapid glucose release remains unknown. Here, we show that adrenal independent hypothalamussympathetic-liver axis mediated fast glucose release, which is required for predatory evoked flight response.

The synaptic protein SynGAP exerts its effects on synaptic plasticity via a structural role rather than its GTPase-activating protein activity.

A study reports that in the mouse hippocampus, the induction of long-term potentiation is dependent on the structural functions of CaMKII and not its enzymatic activity.

Evidence for the presence of silent synapses in the visual cortex of adult mice is uncovered.

In this Journal Club, Xiang Yu describes a 1986 study that provided crucial evidence for synaptic pruning in cortical development.

In a recent study a phenomenological model was used to study the effects of activity-dependent myelination (ADM) on network activity and information transmission in the brain. The model explores how the conduction velocity of an axon — and thus the overall transmission delay — varies as a function of neural activity.