After decades of being ignored, the important role of glia in shaping network activity and behavior is redefining how we understand the brain. For decades…
Glia As Key Players in Network Activity and Plasticity
Lab Talk
How Intelligent Are Neurons?
If individual neurons were as intelligent as little minions, how would we know? The experimental paradigms today assume they are not, what should we change…
Astrocytes in Charge
Over the last decade or so it has been found that astrocytes exert control over synapse formation, synaptic transmission, blood flow and host of other…
Constructing a Theory of the Brain
What are the necessary elements for a genuine theory of the brain and what will it take to construct one? In my previous posts I…
Building The Brain With Modules
Models in computational neuroscience that solve for one outcome cannot combine with one that solves for another. Can a modular approach solve this? The short…
The Crisis of Computational Neuroscience
Computational Models attempt to explain the behavior of the brain using neural network simulations, but assumptions that help simulate one phenomenon are destructive to the…