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BS 197 (Encore) Neuroscience for Dummies with Frank Amthor

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Are Action Potentials Essential?

The human brain is able to do a lot of things that computers aren't very good at. Computers work in sereal they tend to execute one process at a time, although they do this very fast. A human brain of 86 billion nerons is essentially operating entirely in parallel. And its operating without specific programming. It's my hope that we could do the same thing for prosthetic erin plants and working on the visual system. But you know, there are cases where we can make useful interfaces between computers and the brain. These are all done in the process of to alleviate some disability now, but in future, they may be done to enhance people's imagine having an implant just by

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