Comments on: Practice makes perfect: Dendritic Pruning & LTP

By: Chris B

Chris B — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:04:23 +0000

This post rocks! Glad to see we have some ridiculously smart minds among us at the farm. We’re gonna need them to start drawing our understanding out of the natural world to understand our own inner “natural world”. Those pruning concepts bring up a psych 101 fact I learned in undergrad. We’re born with more connections that we have as we age, not only are connections reinforced, they are pruned, recreated and often can be pruned and recreated again multiple times in a lifetime as we learn, forget and relearn things.

Peace and see you on the farm,
C

By: J.L. Bloats

J.L. Bloats — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:44:39 +0000

I protest pruning in all forms! Bocknaggler, I say to the channels Na + & Ca2+! Connecting to even the most droll dendritic mouth breather that can regurgitate the fresh hockle-strocky on the minds of millions to the souls of billions! Reassociation creates a standardization. Menial mental mayhem worked thus far… We would all like to dance with the seven fingered lady, but there are rules and regulations to this factory of life. If every Jon Q. Neuron could swing to the left, and swing to the right- there would be no organic chaos- a waste of good light.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:54:13 +0000

So do you hope to isolate the “epiphany center” of the brain and learn to stimulate it, or find where the ignorant brain lacks structure and develop it’s synapses?

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:16:45 +0000

Cool posts. The articles seem to be building up to something… I can’t wait to see what that is .

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:33:17 +0000

Wow, I had no idea that dendtritic pruning played such a part in our every day lives and communication.