27.9.09

Your Brain = Livewire(s) or "Uncomprehending Chaos"?

The human is made up of 100 billion — live wires that must be kept in delicate balance to stabilize the world’s most magnificent computing organ. Too much excitement and the network will slip into an apoplectic, uncomprehending chaos. Too much inhibition and it will flatline. A new describes how the trillions of interconnections among neurons could maintain a stable but dynamic relationship that leaves the brain sensitive enough to respond to stimulation without veering into a blind seizure.

From PhysOrg: "New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance"

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