Sentences with phrase «number of neuron types»

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Given that there are a number of different types of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that there are many areas where the neurons do things other than help with memory, you can see how one billion is a conservative estimate I hoped would be useful for understanding the storage capacity of the human brain.

To create different cell types in the lab, stem cells must be coaxed down the road of determination — the branching paths that fetal cells normally travel to become neurons, skin cells, muscle cells, or any number of other cell types.

«If you can't experimentally map the brain, you have to predict it — the numbers of neurons, the types, where the proteins are located, how they'll interact,» Markram said.

Its three hundred neurons have been classified into about one hundred types, which is not that much smaller than the number of neurons.

Instead, our braininess as a species arises from having humongous numbers of just a few types of off - the - rack neurons and from the exponentially greater number of interactions between them.

Previous brain autopsies have shown that patients with TSC, as well as patients with ASD, have reduced numbers of Purkinje cells, the main type of neuron that communicates out of the cerebellum.

«So the total yield of graft - derived neurons and glia (a type of brain cell that supports neurons) were much higher than the number of implanted cells, and we found that in both the young and aged hippocampus, without much difference between the two.»

This provides an advantage from a neural prosthetics perspective, Andersen says, as a small implant sampling a small number of neurons can provide information for many types of intended movements.