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Jun 15, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
FINDING THAT CONNECTION
You’re watching two neurons that I saw under the microscope sensing one another + connecting.
There are 86 billion neurons in the brain - how do they know how to connect to other neurons?
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They use these webbed hand-like structures called “growth cones” that you can see in this video. The finger like projections (called “filopodia”) actively reach out to sense the environment around it.
