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A Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain (www.sciencealert.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Fascinating, thanks for sharing

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

So basically they found voltage-gated calcium channels in addition to the sodium channels we already knew about, but just in the cerebral cortex? I'm very confused, this type of thing is not news at all haha. I must be misunderstanding the article? Like "calcium-mediated dendritic action potentials, or dCaAPs" seems like a new term at least but not a new concept at all. I gotta be missing something. Maybe?