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The Synaptic Organization of the Brain Gordon M. Shepherd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

The Synaptic Organization of the Brain Gordon M. Because these models have trillions of synapses, a major problem in their creation is synapse placement. Shepherd GM: The synaptic organization of the brain. Brain scans find that gifted kids have really fast synapses and really well-organized brains. The brain has a very highly organized architecture, so it can fail at the level of cells or at a higher level—the level of circuits. Shepherd chapter 5 (p199) references on this subject: Rhoades BK, Freeman WJ (1990) Excitatory actions of GABA in the rat olfactory bulb. For all author emails, please .. This book provides a fundamental description of the synapse by leading experts in the field. 3 Brain Science Laboratory, The Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga 525-8577, Japan. Reductionists tend to overlook the fact that neurons are alive and traditional views of the hierarchical organization of the brain stop at the synapse as the fundamental switch, analogous to bytes in computers. Synapses play a central role in the brain by mediating signal transmission between neurons. Large-scale models of neuronal structures are needed to explore emergent properties of mammalian brains. We are not born leaders; this assembly process happens in life, through the synaptic organization of our brains and via patterns of interconnected neural highways. Moore: Now they're using that laser to help build better synapse microarrays. They can find the memories, the skills- the synapses- faster. Rather, scientists now argue, it is a brain's underlying organization and molecular activity at its synapses (the communication junctions between neurons through which nerve impulses pass) that dictate intelligence. The information presented in the Handbook of Brain Microcircuits was previously dispersed across the literature. Shepherd details for each brain region, cell populations, cell proportions, brain wiring. In addition, The synaptic organization of the brain Edited by Gordon M.