Brain's unique 'graded' cell messaging
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•A First-of-Its-Kind Signal Has Been Detected in Human Brains
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Scientists from Humboldt University in Germany and Greece have identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain.
They found individual cells in the cortex used not just the usual sodium ions to 'fire', but calcium as well.
This combination of positively charged ions kicked off waves of voltage that had never been seen before.
The discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.
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