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  • A quick Google search found this paper from the Annual Review of Neuroscience titled Microtubule-Based Transport Systems in Neurons: The Roles of Kinesins and Dyneins …

    Another predictable argument against front-loading 2007

  • Neurons are also densely interconnected, with many types coexisting in any given cubic millimeter.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Neurons can temporarily store incoming information by changing the strengths of their synaptic connections.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Neurons are saturated in baths of chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, which are generated within the brain the way hormones are.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Every neuroscience student learns the rule: “Neurons that fire together wire together.”

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Neurons are saturated in baths of chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, which are generated within the brain the way hormones are.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • My research lab at Calit2 is called BANG Lab, which stands for Bits, Atoms, Neurons, and Genes.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Every neuroscience student learns the rule: “Neurons that fire together wire together.”

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Neurons have the amazing ability to gather and transmit elec - trochemical signals and pass messages to each other.

    Why Blogs are the Brain of the World or, the Story of Write to Done | Write to Done 2010

  • Neurons can temporarily store incoming information by changing the strengths of their synaptic connections.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

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