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Glia brain cells: Not just infrastructure

Impact: Neuroscience    March 8, 2013
So many stories about this recent neuroscience research begin with – “human brain cells make mice smarter” – and miss the point of the research almost entirely. It’s not about mice. It’s about a type of human brain cells, glia, which are just now coming into focus for neuroscience. For those that understand the prolog, [...]
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Rethink the brain: More evidence for the tripartite synapse

Impact: Neuroscience    April 3, 2012
The star (fish) shaped astrocyte cell….Credit: Neurorocker If you’ve had any exposure to how the brain and nervous system works, you probably know about synapses – the juncture where the end of one neuron almost meets the beginning of another neuron. The synapse is two neurons and the gap between them, the point where either [...]
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