{"id":9643,"date":"2019-02-20T02:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9643"},"modified":"2019-03-04T02:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T09:24:08","slug":"wi-fi-for-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/20\/wi-fi-for-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi For The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Science Alert<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Neuroscientists Say They&#8217;ve Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0PETER DOCKRILL<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvXuq9jRWKE\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists think they&#8217;ve 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&#8217;ve 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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/subjects\/synaptic-transmission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">synaptic transmission<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axonal_transport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">axonal transport<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gap_junction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gap junction connections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know yet the &#8216;So what?&#8217; part of this discovery entirely,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedaily.case.edu\/discovering-a-new-form-of-communication-in-the-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> neural and biomedical engineer Dominique Durand from Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we do know that this seems to be an entirely new form of communication in the brain, so we are very excited about this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Science Alert<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Science Alert Neuroscientists Say They&#8217;ve Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication by\u00a0PETER DOCKRILL Scientists think they&#8217;ve 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&#8217;ve been surgically severed. The discovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}