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image credit: Emili Pascual Juan
blood flow in the body is laminar, but is turbulent or chaotic in the aorta
Or do neurons and arteries recapitulate the patterns of the universe?
The physics of neural circuity
When you read these words, photos that light up letters hit your retina, and an electrical cascade ensues - targeting a myriad of cells throughout your central nervous system.
a giant neuron wraps itself around the brain. image
credit:allen institute for brain science
Here, we consider the beginning, and the end. The
construction of neural circuits - axon growth cones -
and regeneration in the nervous system. As we will
see, repair is possible in the PNS, but connecting
those circuits to the CNS is not, as yet, due to
difference in neural pathways and connections.
An understanding of physics - however
humble, can change the way you think about life.
