{"id":162685,"date":"2023-04-23T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-new-window-into-the-brains-computational-function"},"modified":"2023-04-23T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:25:07","slug":"a-new-window-into-the-brains-computational-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-new-window-into-the-brains-computational-function","title":{"rendered":"A new window into the brain\u2019s computational function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-window-into-the-brains-computational-function.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The function of the human brain is exceptional, driving all aspects of our thoughts and creativity. Yet the part of the human brain\u2014the neocortex\u2014responsible for such cognitive functions has a similar overall structure to other mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Through close collaboration between The University of Queensland (UQ), The Mater Hospital and the Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital, researchers have discovered the human <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>\u2019s enhanced processing power may stem from differences in the structure and function of our neurons.<\/p>\n<p>The results of this study have been published in <i>Cell Reports<\/i> as \u201cHigh-fidelity dendritic sodium spike generation in human layer 2\/3 neocortical pyramidal neurons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The function of the human brain is exceptional, driving all aspects of our thoughts and creativity. Yet the part of the human brain\u2014the neocortex\u2014responsible for such cognitive functions has a similar overall structure to other mammals. Through close collaboration between The University of Queensland (UQ), The Mater Hospital and the Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162685","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}