{"id":94436,"date":"2019-08-04T18:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T01:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/physicists-overturn-a-100-year-old-assumption-on-how-brain-cells-work"},"modified":"2019-08-04T18:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T01:22:53","slug":"physicists-overturn-a-100-year-old-assumption-on-how-brain-cells-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/physicists-overturn-a-100-year-old-assumption-on-how-brain-cells-work","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brain Cells Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-overturn-a-100-year-old-assumption-on-how-brain-cells-work2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human brain contains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/scitable\/blog\/brain-metrics\/are_there_really_as_many\">a little over 80-odd billion neurons<\/a>, each joining with other cells to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dana.org\/News\/Details.aspx?id=43512\">create trillions<\/a> of connections called synapses.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are mind-boggling, but the way each individual nerve cell contributes to the brain\u2019s functions is still an area of contention.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a study published in 2017 has overturned a 100-year-old assumption on what exactly makes a neuron \u2018fire\u2019, posing new mechanisms behind certain neurological disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain contains a little over 80-odd billion neurons, each joining with other cells to create trillions of connections called synapses. The numbers are mind-boggling, but the way each individual nerve cell contributes to the brain\u2019s functions is still an area of contention. In fact, a study published in 2017 has overturned a 100-year-old [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94436","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}