An important part of the human experience is striving for higher achievements and deeper understanding. In science, deeper understanding can have practical applications for health and ameliorating the impact of disease. Much like the discovery and reinvention we all experience across our lifespan, scientific discoveries are often inspired and driven by revisiting older assumptions, models, and conclusions. For this reason, a recent paper refining our understanding of the basic function of information transfer in neurons caught my eye.

Although most of what I write here is about the forest (that is, a person in society) or the trees (which is to say ourselves and how we fit within society), I also delve into the bark of the nervous system and how that sustains behavior within a human and across society. Occasionally, I also delve into the next layer, which is deep under the bark and the domain of cellular neuroscience. This post goes deep into the bark and has made me think profoundly........

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