Posts Tagged ‘connections’
Understand your connectome, understand yourself
—– NO ROAD, NO trail can penetrate this forest. The long and delicate branches of its trees lie everywhere, choking space with their exuberant growth. No sunbeam can fly a path tortuous enough to navigate the narrow spaces between these entangled branches. All the trees of this dark forest grew from 100 billion seeds planted…
Read MoreLandmark study on neural circuits shows that “cells that fire together wire together,” refining the popular “Use it or lose it”
Research on largest network of cortical neurons to date profiled (Medical Xpress): “Even the simplest networks of neurons in the brain are composed of millions of connections, and examining these vast networks is critical to understanding how the brain works. An international team of researchers
Read MoreTo Be (Your Connectome), or Not to Be (Your Genome)
The brain’s billions of neurons resemble trees of many species and come in many fantastic shapes. Only the most determined explorers can hope to capture a glimpse of this forest’s interior, and even they see little, and see it poorly. Would your connectome reveal anything interesting about you? Learn about connectome from this book.
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