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Posted by: Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek,
on 08 Apr 2009 |
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The neurons in your brain have a basic structure of an axon (the finer cable like projections) and dendrites (the branches) and the soma (the central part of the neuron). The axon emerges from the soma at the axon hillock where there is the greatest density of voltage dependent sodium channels. The interesting thing about a neuron is that it is an "all or none" mechanism that is, like the binary underpinnings of computing, either it fires or it doesn't. The interesting thing about...