Synapses
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The high cost of maintaining resting potentials in all 86 billion neurons means that little energy is left to propel signals down axons and across
synapses
, the nerve discharges that actually get things done.
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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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