Abstract:Nowadays, the main questions related to brain functions are frequently taken as related to properties of the synaptic circuitry of the different regions which compose the brain structure. This line of thought was naturally infl uenced by the seminal discoveries starting with Cajal and Golgi (Nobel Prize awarded jointly in 1906), when the synapses were postulated as connections established between neurons. Reinforcing this view, Otto Loewi (1921) was the fi rst to present experimental evidences of the chemical … Show more
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