Even more impressively, they could activate those very same neurons in behaving mice by shining light on them, re-awakening whatever fragments of experience those cells had presumably encoded. (scientificamerican.com)
«Study identifies brain cells involved in Pavlovian response: Same neurons malfunction in Parkinson's, Huntington's and Tourette syndrome.» (sciencedaily.com)
In a specific example of this scenario, co-occurrence of two alternative variants of the cell polarity factor Cdc42 in the same neuron was essential for proper development of a single axon and several functional dendrites. (sciencedaily.com)