Besides receiving incoming signals from other brain cells, a neuron’s branchlike dendrites somehow participate in computations that the cell makes to decide whether it should fire or not.
A new type of microscope may illuminate the murky details of that process and other neuronal functions by enabling researchers to peer into the brains of active laboratory rats, says Michale S.
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