Synapses
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This space (the neuropil) represents 90-98% of the volume of the human cerebral cortex, with an estimated one billion
synapses
per cubic millimeter of neuropil.
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And in this slide you see the neurons and the
synapses
of the brain don't form.
Each neuron is connected via
synapses
to up to 10,000 other neurons in your brain.
So all of those colored lines correspond to bunches of axons, the fibers that join cell bodies to
synapses.
Now that might sound bad, but actually this is a really important developmental process, because gray matter contains cell bodies and connections between cells, the synapses, and this decline in gray matter volume during prefrontal cortex is thought to correspond to synaptic pruning, the elimination of unwanted
synapses.
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