{"id":171360,"date":"2023-09-05T16:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/neurons-on-edge-avalanches-in-brain-reveal-info-processing-secrets"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:24:46","slug":"neurons-on-edge-avalanches-in-brain-reveal-info-processing-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/neurons-on-edge-avalanches-in-brain-reveal-info-processing-secrets","title":{"rendered":"Neurons On Edge: Avalanches in Brain Reveal Info Processing Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurons-on-edge-avalanches-in-brain-reveal-info-processing-secrets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Researchers provided robust evidence supporting the controversial \u201ccritical brain hypothesis\u201d through a project called DishBrain.<\/p>\n<p>This experiment, involving 800,000 human neural cells playing Pong, reveals how neurons shift into a \u201cneural critical\u201d state when informed about the surrounding environment, enabling cascades of brain activity. This state lies between the extremes of epileptic excitation and a comatose stall.<\/p>\n<p>The findings hint at profound insights into brain function and potential treatments for neurological disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers provided robust evidence supporting the controversial \u201ccritical brain hypothesis\u201d through a project called DishBrain. This experiment, involving 800,000 human neural cells playing Pong, reveals how neurons shift into a \u201cneural critical\u201d state when informed about the surrounding environment, enabling cascades of brain activity. This state lies between the extremes of epileptic excitation and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171360","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}