Genetic deficits in auditory sensory transduction evoke changes in development and maturation of synapses between inner hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons, which can be partially recovered using inner ear gene therapy.

Sensory acquisition of a motor target is associated with rapid removal of excitatory synapses and with rapid insertion of inhibitory synapses in the main song control area of songbirds.

Mitochondrial calcium influx plays distinct roles in presynapse formation, function and stability in sensory hair cells.

Following sensory deprivation in adult mice, homeostatic synaptic strengthening occurs in non-sensory network responsive synapses, but not in sensory responsive synapses, despite homeostatic increases to the global sensory-evoked responses.

Storage of long-term memory in Aplysia does not require stable synapses.

Longitudinal imaging of synapses in the brain shows that sensory deprivation differentially modifies specific synapses within individual neurons across distinct layers of the sensory cortex.

A fundamental visual computation, the establishment of ON selectivity, is established across distributed circuits, allowing for more robust and flexible coding than suggested by core circuit motifs.

Axon guidance cues restrict sensory neuron synapse formation to a subset of equally acceptable interneuronal dendritic arbors during Drosophila locomotor circuit assembly.

A characterization of LGN-V1 synaptic transmission properties demonstrates thalamocortical synapses in vivo are weak and unreliable, but biologically constrained models show they efficiently drive cortex.

The complete neural circuit map of a tractable olfactory system will support studies towards bridging the gap between circuits and behavior.