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BS 201 Brain Development with Bill Harris
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Neuronal Connectivity Is a Big Problem
The problem of neural connectivity is a huge one and still a huge one. We know that the embryonic brain connects up well. But an adult human being, if you damage the axons, those are the parts of the wires from neurons that grow out, they don't grow well in an adult. So could you just give us kind of an overview of how the neurons manage to connect to the right place and not connect, for example, to themselves? Yes. When a nerve cell is born, it's kind of a round cell at the beginning, but it starts to send out these processes,. One of which becomes the axon generally. And the axon may go for a long distance
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