EP2: Cells that Fire Together Wire Together - the Science, the History and the Principle
Building Your Best Brain · synaptic.sylvie
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Show Notes
Welcome to Building Your Best Brain Podcast!
In this episode we:
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Sylvie's favorite saying in all of neuroscience research!
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What is a neuron?
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What are the building blocks of a circuit in the brain?
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Excitatory vs. inhibitory neurotransmitters.
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Dr. Donald Hebb "Hebbian Learning"
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The famous rhythm by Dr. Carla Shatz
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The break-through research that brought it to life
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What is neuroplasticity?
Resources:
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References:
Hebb D. 1949. The organisation of behaviour. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
Shatz CJ. 1992. The developing brain. Sci. Am. 267, 60–67. ( 10.1038/scientificamerican0992-60)
Song S, Miller KD, Abbott LF (2000) Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity. Nature Neuroscience 9: 919-926.