a: nerve cell ~
b: a tree
What:
"Neuroscientists need a diagram of the brain's internal wiring, but mapping neural circuits isn't easy. The human neocortex houses dozens of types of neurons, all intimately intertwined. Each nerve cell is like a tree, with a head of fine branches -known as dendrites - that receive messages from several hundred to thousands of neighbors, and with a complex array of roots that pass the signals on to other cells across synapses "
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Date: Feb 22 2014 8:49 PM
# 5042 Critique Analogy