{"id":87851,"date":"2019-02-18T03:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/neuroscientists-say-theyve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication"},"modified":"2019-02-18T03:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:42:55","slug":"neuroscientists-say-theyve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/neuroscientists-say-theyve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists Say They\u2019ve Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-say-theyve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists think they\u2019ve identified a previously unknown form of neural communication that self-propagates across brain tissue, and can leap wirelessly from neurons in one section of brain tissue to another \u2013 even if they\u2019ve been surgically severed.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery offers some radical new insights about the way neurons might be talking to one another, via a mysterious process unrelated to conventionally understood mechanisms, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/subjects\/synaptic-transmission\">synaptic transmission<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axonal_transport\">axonal transport<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gap_junction\">gap junction connections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know yet the \u2018So what?\u2019 part of this discovery entirely,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thedaily.case.edu\/discovering-a-new-form-of-communication-in-the-brain\/\">says<\/a> neural and biomedical engineer Dominique Durand from Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-fou...munication<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists think they\u2019ve identified a previously unknown form of neural communication that self-propagates across brain tissue, and can leap wirelessly from neurons in one section of brain tissue to another \u2013 even if they\u2019ve been surgically severed. The discovery offers some radical new insights about the way neurons might be talking to one another, via [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87851","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\/87851","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}