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You have billions of power-hungry neurons to maintain.
Instead, what's really happening is that certain compounds in spicy foods activate the type of sensory neurons called polymodal nociceptors.
Processing work gets done by cells called neurons and glia.
After immediate sensory data is temporarily transcribed by neurons in the cortex, it travels to the hippocampus, where special proteins work to strengthen the cortical synaptic connections.
Upon his death, his brain was preserved and scanned before being cut into over 2000 individual slices and photographed to form a digital map down to the level of individual neurons, all in a live broadcast watched by 400,000 people.
Is it something more than a system of interconnected neurons developed by biological algorithmic processes and the random experiences that shape our lives?
When you experience something, like dialing a phone number, the experience is converted into a pulse of electrical energy that zips along a network of neurons.
Neurons throughout the brain communicate at dedicated sites called synapses using specialized neurotransmitters.
If two neurons communicate repeatedly, a remarkable thing happens: the efficiency of communication between them increases.
Scientists have several theories about what's behind this deterioration, from actual brain shrinkage, the hippocampus loses 5% of its neurons every decade for a total loss of 20% by the time you're 80 years old to the drop in the production of neurotransmitters, like acetylcholine, which is vital to learning and memory.
First, your brain sends a signal to motor neurons inside your arm.
Too much of it results in the loss of synaptic connections between neurons and the shrinking of your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain the regulates behaviors like concentration, decision-making, judgement, and social interaction.
Those heads contain impressively large brains, with a brain to body ratio similar to that of other intelligent animals, and a complex nervous system with about as many neurons as that of a dog.
But instead of being centralized in the brain, these 500 million neurons are spread out in a network of interconnected ganglia organized into three basic structures.
The central brain only contains about 10% of the neurons, while the two huge optic lobes contain about 30%.
As the signal travels through the network, the arm neurons pick up the message and jump into action to command the movement.
You've certainly heard of one of the famous ones called deep brain stimulation, where you implant an electrode in the depths of the brain in order to modulate a circuit of neurons to improve a neurological function.
And if you reduce the brain to individual neurons, you're left with something that is notoriously unreliable, and nothing like how we think and behave, at least most of the time.
Rather, the mind emerges from the collective activities of many, many neurons.
There are billions of neurons in the human brain, and trillions of connections between all those neurons.
The neurons in our brain follow simple rules, just like the fish, so that as a group, their activity self-organizes into reliable patterns that let you do things like recognize faces, successfully repeat the same task over and over again, and keep all those silly little habits that everyone likes about you.
The basic function of each neuron in the brain is to either excite or inhibit other neurons.
If you connect a few neurons together into a simple circuit, you can generate rhythmic patterns of activity, feedback loops that ramp up or shut down a signal, coincidence detectors, and disinhibition, where two inhibitory neurons can actually activate another neuron by removing inhibitory brakes.
As more and more neurons are connected, increasingly complex patterns of activity emerge from the network.
Soon, so many neurons are interacting in so many different ways at once that the system becomes chaotic.
That's true in the molecular pandemonium that lets your cells function, the tangled thicket of neurons that produces your thoughts and identity, your network of friends and family, all the way up to the structures and economies of our cities across the planet.
Amino acids contain the precursors to neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers that carry signals between neurons, affecting things like mood, sleep, attentiveness, and weight.
They bind to the proteins in neurons' cell membranes that let charged particles in and out, and lock out positively charged particles.
Several common anesthetics bind to the GABA-A receptor in the brain's neurons.
These consist of artificial nodes that mimic our biological neurons by forming connections and exchanging information.
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