{"id":135772,"date":"2022-02-17T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/dendrites-may-help-neurons-perform-complicated-calculations"},"modified":"2022-02-17T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T06:22:36","slug":"dendrites-may-help-neurons-perform-complicated-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/dendrites-may-help-neurons-perform-complicated-calculations","title":{"rendered":"Dendrites may help neurons perform complicated calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dendrites-may-help-neurons-perform-complicated-calculations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within the human brain, neurons perform complex calculations on information they receive. Researchers at MIT have now demonstrated how dendrites\u2014branch-like extensions that protrude from neurons\u2014help to perform those computations.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that within a single neuron, different types of dendrites receive input from distinct parts of the brain, and process it in different ways. These differences may help neurons to integrate a variety of inputs and generate an appropriate response, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>In the neurons that the researchers examined in this study, it appears that this dendritic processing helps cells to take in visual information and combine it with motor feedback, in a circuit that is involved in navigation and planning movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the human brain, neurons perform complex calculations on information they receive. Researchers at MIT have now demonstrated how dendrites\u2014branch-like extensions that protrude from neurons\u2014help to perform those computations. The researchers found that within a single neuron, different types of dendrites receive input from distinct parts of the brain, and process it in different ways. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135772","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}