{"id":171509,"date":"2023-09-07T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/innovationrx-new-insight-into-how-the-brain-works"},"modified":"2023-09-07T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:35:59","slug":"innovationrx-new-insight-into-how-the-brain-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/innovationrx-new-insight-into-how-the-brain-works","title":{"rendered":"InnovationRx: New Insight Into How The Brain Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/innovationrx-new-insight-into-how-the-brain-works2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To understand why this is a big deal, for a long time its been understood that (to vastly oversimplify things) the brain is primarily composed to two kinds of cells: glial cells, which are basically the brain\u2019s infrastructure; and neurons, which communicate with each other with chemicals called neurotransmitters at special sites called synapses.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/newsletter\/innovationrx\/#3ffe45a750f4\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/newsletter\/innovationrx\/#3ffe45a750f4\" aria-label=\"subscribe here\"><em>subscribe here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Add another layer of complexity to our understanding of the brain. Researchers at University of Lausanne have discovered that a heretofore unknown class of cell is also involved in the complicated internal communications of the brain. The research was published Wednesday in Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand why this is a big deal, for a long time its been understood that (to vastly oversimplify things) the brain is primarily composed to two kinds of cells: glial cells, which are basically the brain\u2019s infrastructure; and neurons, which communicate with each other with chemicals called neurotransmitters at special sites called synapses. InnovationRx [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171509","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}