Timeline for What are the rules that govern neuron behavior?
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| Mar 7, 2016 at 0:11 | comment | added | honi | after all, not all neurons fire action potentials, and not all neurons have separation between axon and dendrite, and neurons don't really have a consistent threshold, and neurotransmission can occur outside of synapses, etc etc etc. but it's still important to teach those rules of thumb because otherwise we can't teach anything. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 0:05 | comment | added | honi | but seriously, its a pretty good heuristic. it certainly makes conceptualizing network function much much easier for students. it is also a heuristic that allows for a massive amount of the research that goes on in systems neuroscience. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 0:04 | comment | added | honi | the easy response to those papers is that things are funky in the midbrain. | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 22:35 | comment | added | Chelonian | We might want to retire "Dale's Law". Henry Dale apparently never stated it, and it's not much of a law if there are exceptions. I am curious to what degree classical neurotransmitter (GABA/glutamate) cotransmission occurs, but here are two example papers: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2832847 and nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n11/full/nn.3823.html | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 22:02 | history | edited | honi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 4, 2016 at 14:15 | history | answered | honi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |