For a nerve
cell, it’s all about making connections and dropping the duds. Harvard
neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman has been keeping an eye on nerve networking by observing
how one neuron reacts when another grows silent. In a phone interview, he
described the situation by analogy: “It’s like if I’m talking to you and you
stop talking back to me.
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