Sentences with phrase «about glia»
He still was not a neural engineer, but he was getting closer, because as it turns out, there is another really important thing to know about glia — they protect the brain from foreign intruders.
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If you had to blame one thing for the mistaken impression about glia, it would have to be electricity.
He is author of Why We Snap, about the neuroscience of sudden aggression, and The Other Brain, about glia.
Not exact matches
But because the mice had human glia but not human neurons, he said, «we would have fewer concerns about any conceivable «humanization» of the mouse.»
The mental sensations of self, desire, fear, love and hate seem better understood in the light of Fields's discoveries about the manner in which glia interact with neural synapses and interact with one another.
Even though the brain contains about a trillion glia — 10 times as many as there are neurons — the assumption was that those cells were nothing more than a passive support system.