Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Can our brains use electrical field to transmit information from one place to another?


 
Neural signals are sent via mechanisms such as synaptic transmission, gap junctions, and diffusion processes, but a new study suggests there's another way that our brains transmit information from one place to another.

Researchers in the US have recorded neural spikes travelling too slowly in the brain to be explained by conventional signalling mechanisms. In the absence of other plausible explanations, the scientists believe these brain waves are being transmitted by a weak electrical field, and they've been able to detect one of these in mice.


Paper:
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/48/15800

Article:http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-new-method-of-brain-wave-transmission-electrical-fields

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