{"id":184428,"date":"2024-03-08T22:19:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/brain-communicates-in-analog-and-digital-modes-simultaneously"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:19:57","slug":"brain-communicates-in-analog-and-digital-modes-simultaneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/brain-communicates-in-analog-and-digital-modes-simultaneously","title":{"rendered":"Brain Communicates in Analog and Digital Modes Simultaneously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-communicates-in-analog-and-digital-modes-simultaneously2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Haven, Conn. <\/strong>\u2014 Contrary to popular belief, brain cells use a mix of analog and digital coding at the same time to communicate efficiently, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers published this week in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>This finding partially overturns a longstanding belief that each of the brain\u2019s 100 billion neurons communicate strictly by a digital code. Analog systems represent signals continuously, while digital systems represent signals in the timing of pulses. Traditionally, many human-designed circuits operate exclusively in analog or in digital modes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study reveals that the brain is very sophisticated in its operation, using a code that is more efficient than previously appreciated,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/info.med.yale.edu\/neurobio\/mccormick\/mccormick1.html\" target=\"_blank\">David McCormick<\/a>, professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/info.med.yale.edu\/neurobio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Neurobiology<\/a> and senior author of the study. \u201cThis has widespread implications, not only for our basic understanding of how the brain operates, but also in our understanding of neuronal dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Haven, Conn. \u2014 Contrary to popular belief, brain cells use a mix of analog and digital coding at the same time to communicate efficiently, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers published this week in Nature. This finding partially overturns a longstanding belief that each of the brain\u2019s 100 billion neurons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184428","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=184428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}