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That debate continues today, with competing theories—one of which suggests that single neurons hold the recollection, say, of your grandmother or of a famous movie star.
This is the first demonstration of a higher number of human neurons in the brain of newborns compared with the adult.
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The alternative theory asserts that each memory is distributed across many millions of neurons.
This new approach will allow, in culture, detailed multidisciplinary analyses of individual neurons and small networks of neurons from the mammalian brain.
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11 Jul 2012-Neural Plasticity
18 Citations
Investigating the complexity of homeostatic regulation of single neurons and neural circuits is thus fundamental for understanding brain function.