{"id":237350,"date":"2026-05-18T18:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/behold-the-neuron-a-complicated-cell-with-a-simple-mission"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:09:37","slug":"behold-the-neuron-a-complicated-cell-with-a-simple-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/behold-the-neuron-a-complicated-cell-with-a-simple-mission","title":{"rendered":"Behold the neuron, a complicated cell with a simple mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/behold-the-neuron-a-complicated-cell-with-a-simple-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neurons, the uber-connected nerve cells that act as a main switchboard for the brain, are central to some incredibly complicated processes. They make it possible to think, walk, speak, and breathe. They even have built-in backup batteries to use in emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the way individual neurons go about their business is surprisingly simple, according to a new Yale study.<\/p>\n<p>How simple? Most of them operate entirely like tiny on-off switches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurons, the uber-connected nerve cells that act as a main switchboard for the brain, are central to some incredibly complicated processes. They make it possible to think, walk, speak, and breathe. They even have built-in backup batteries to use in emergencies. Yet the way individual neurons go about their business is surprisingly simple, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237350","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=237350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}