Dendritic Signals Start Out Stronger When They Have Farther to Go
OCT 01, 2000
Without a way to compensate for leaking charge, neurons wouldn’t be able to receive their most distant inputs.
DOI: 10.1063/1.1325186
The trillion or so neurons in our brains are input‐output devices. Feeding each neuron with information is a tree‐like body of fine filaments called dendrites, whose trunk originates at the neuron’s cell body or soma. Also attached to the soma is the axon, which carries the processed information to other cells—mostly the dendrites of other neurons via junctions called synapses.
© 2000. American Institute of Physics
