{"id":227155,"date":"2025-12-15T21:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/neurons-use-physical-signals-not-electricity-to-stabilize-communication"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:08:11","slug":"neurons-use-physical-signals-not-electricity-to-stabilize-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/neurons-use-physical-signals-not-electricity-to-stabilize-communication","title":{"rendered":"Neurons use physical signals, not electricity, to stabilize communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurons-use-physical-signals-not-electricity-to-stabilize-communication.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication is disrupted, the brain must rapidly rebalance its internal signaling to keep circuits functioning properly. New research from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences shows that neurons can stabilize their signaling using a fast, physical mechanism\u2014not the electrical activity scientists long assumed was required.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2502997122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> recently in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, reveals a system that doesn\u2019t depend on the flow of charged particles to maintain signaling when part of a synapse\u2014the junction between neurons\u2014suddenly stops working.<\/p>\n<p>Maintaining this balance between neurons is essential for muscle control, learning and overall brain health. Failure to maintain this \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-04-autism-spectrum-disorder-pathogenesis-biomarker.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">homeostasis<\/a>\u201d has been linked to neurological conditions such as epilepsy and autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication is disrupted, the brain must rapidly rebalance its internal signaling to keep circuits functioning properly. New research from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences shows that neurons can stabilize their signaling using a fast, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227155","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}