{"id":115846,"date":"2020-11-13T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/astrocytes-identified-as-master-conductors-of-the-brain"},"modified":"2020-11-13T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T06:22:48","slug":"astrocytes-identified-as-master-conductors-of-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/astrocytes-identified-as-master-conductors-of-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Astrocytes Identified as Master \u2018Conductors\u2019 of the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrocytes-identified-as-master-conductors-of-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Astrocytes are involved in regulating inhibitory synapses by binding to neurons through the NrCAM adhesion molecule.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Duke University<\/p>\n<p>In the orchestra of the brain, the firing of each neuron is controlled by two notes\u2013excitatory and inhibitory\u2013 that come from two distinct forms of a cellular structure called synapses. Synapses are essentially the connections between neurons, transmitting information from one cell to the other. The synaptic harmonies come together to create the most exquisite music\u2013at least most of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Astrocytes are involved in regulating inhibitory synapses by binding to neurons through the NrCAM adhesion molecule. Source: Duke University In the orchestra of the brain, the firing of each neuron is controlled by two notes\u2013excitatory and inhibitory\u2013 that come from two distinct forms of a cellular structure called synapses. Synapses are essentially the connections [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}