{"id":225076,"date":"2025-11-14T01:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/brains-mechanical-properties-influence-synapse-formation-and-electrical-signal-development-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:19:44","slug":"brains-mechanical-properties-influence-synapse-formation-and-electrical-signal-development-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/brains-mechanical-properties-influence-synapse-formation-and-electrical-signal-development-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Brain\u2019s mechanical properties influence synapse formation and electrical signal development, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brains-mechanical-properties-influence-synapse-formation-and-electrical-signal-development-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted manner. Despite decades of research, how synapses form during brain development is still not fully understood.<\/p>\n<p>Now, an international research team from the Max-Planck-Zentrum f\u00fcr Physik und Medizin, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Warwick has discovered that the mechanical properties of the brain play a significant role in this developmental process. In a study recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-64810-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, the scientists showed how the ability of neurons to detect stiffness is related to molecular mechanisms that regulate neuronal development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted manner. Despite decades of research, how synapses form during brain development is still not fully understood. Now, an international research team from the Max-Planck-Zentrum f\u00fcr Physik und Medizin, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Warwick [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}