Re: what is the most amazing fact in neuroscience?

Date: Tue May 12 17:18:14 2009
Posted By: Lane Niles, Ph.D., President and Chief Science Officer
Area of science: Neuroscience
ID: 1242144719.Ns

Message:

My vote is for the way the brain is able to completely "refunctionalize" itself, whether by synaptic plasticity at the level of modulating synaptic output, regrowing and pruning back nerve terminals, or distributing patterns throughout multiple essentially "degenerate" pathways (in the quantum mechanics sense) to underlie our changing thoughts and actions.

A good place to get started is:
Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (Book with CD-ROM) by Mark Bear, Mark F. Bear, Barry W. Connors, Michael A. Paradiso 2nd Bk&Cdr edition (March 15, 2002) ISBN: 0781739446

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