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Why Synaptic Transmission Is Not a One-Way Street – Technology Networks
Neuroscientists analyzed the exact properties of nerve connections in the brain and discovered that at synapses, messages are sent against the usual stream of information….
When neuroscientists at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria analyzed the exact properties of nerve connections in the brain, they made a startling observation: At a key connection, or synapse, messages are sent against the usual stream of information. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, reports that the signal glutamate likely plays a role in this unusual transmission.
Information flows in a well-defined direction in the brain: Chemical and electrical signals…
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