{"id":162489,"date":"2023-04-19T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-first-of-its-kind-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:23:36","slug":"a-first-of-its-kind-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-first-of-its-kind-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"A First-of-Its-Kind Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-first-of-its-kind-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have recently identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that\u2019s not been seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain\u2019s outer cortical cells that produces a novel \u2018graded\u2019 signal all on its own, one that could provide individual neurons with another way to carry out their logical functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have recently identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that\u2019s not been seen before. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized. Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain\u2019s outer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162489","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}