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Whenever a flash of light hits the receptor, the pore opens, an electrical current is switched on, and the neuron fires electrical impulses.
If you work on one neuron, that's neuroscience.
You take this DNA and put it into the neuron.
The neuron uses its natural protein-making machinery to fabricate these little light-sensitive proteins and install them all over the cell, like putting solar panels on a roof.
And the next thing you know, you have a neuron which can be activated with light.
They talked about the neuron, development, disease, vision and all the things you might want to know about brains.
Each neuron is connected via synapses to up to 10,000 other neurons in your brain.
And each neuron itself is largely unique.
So we're going to imagine we're recording from a single neuron in the hippocampus of this rat here.
So what we see is that this neuron knows whenever the rat has gone into one particular place in its environment.
So we could show the firing rate of that neuron as a function of the animal's location.
Underneath each one of those is a cell, and this cell's a neuron that is going to send information about wind or vibration.
Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal, who's widely considered the father of modern neuroscience, applied this Golgi stain, which yields data which looks like this, and really gave us the modern notion of the nerve cell, the neuron.
He took skin biopsies, this time from people who had a disease, ALS, or as you call it in the U.K., motor neuron disease.
For every one single neuron, you can actually have from 10,000 to 100,000 different connections or dendrites or whatever you want to call it, and every time you learn something, or you have an experience, that bush grows, you know, that bush of information.
And it's a beautifully complex neuron.
So this is the preparation that one of my former post-docs, Gaby Maimon, who's now at Rockefeller, developed, and it's basically a flight simulator but under conditions where you actually can stick an electrode in the brain of the fly and record from a genetically identified neuron in the fly's brain.
The green trace at the bottom is the membrane potential of a neuron in the fly's brain, and you'll see the fly start to fly, and the fly is actually controlling the rotation of that visual pattern itself by its own wing motion, and you can see this visual interneuron respond to the pattern of wing motion as the fly flies.
Now, another idea, another way of multiplexing is multiplexing in space, having different parts of a neuron do different things at the same time.
So here's two sort of canonical neurons from a vertebrate and an invertebrate, a human pyramidal neuron from Ramon y Cajal, and another cell to the right, a non-spiking interneuron, and this is the work of Alan Watson and Malcolm Burrows many years ago, and Malcolm Burrows came up with a pretty interesting idea based on the fact that this neuron from a locust does not fire action potentials.
So a typical cell, like the neurons in our brain, has a region called the dendrites that receives input, and that input sums together and will produce action potentials that run down the axon and then activate all the output regions of the neuron.
So there's a possibility that you have computational compartments that allow the different parts of the neuron to do different things at the same time.
So if we inhibit a particular type of neuron, and we find that a behavior is blocked, we can conclude that those neurons are necessary for that behavior.
I tell my friends that no neuron is safe from a neurosurgeon, because we can really reach just about anywhere in the brain quite safely now.
I mean, we don't know the detailed answer, but we know the basic part of the answer, and that is, there is a sequence of neuron firings, and they terminate where the acetylcholine is secreted at the axon end-plates of the motor neurons.
There's a person at Newcastle who has figured out that it's a very large neuron.
And she's actually figuring out how to make a collision-avoidance circuitry based on this very large neuron in the locust.
This blue neuron is connected with the locomotor center, and what this constellation of synaptic contacts means is that the brain is reconnected with the locomotor center with only one relay neuron.
Take rodents and primates, for instance: In larger rodent brains, the average size of the neuron increases, so the brain inflates very rapidly and gains size much faster than it gains neurons.
But primate brains gain neurons without the average neuron becoming any larger, which is a very economical way to add neurons to your brain.
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