Sunday, November 23, 2014

The wave

How brain cells persuade other cells to do ‘the wave’
November 19, 2014

Stadium crowd performing "the wave" at the Confederations Cup 2005 in Frankfurt (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Neuroscientists have discovered mechanisms that enable certain brain cells to persuade others to create “the wave” (a wave of standing spectators that travels through a crowd*), which may help understand more about neurocognitive disorders such as dementia, the researchers say. Inhibitory neurons** can persuade networks of other neurons to imitate their vibrations, setting off global synchronous … more…

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