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Your Brain Is Home To Millions Of Incomplete Connections (And That’s A Good Thing)

Thanks to these “silent synapses,” we can constantly form new memories and learn new things, without replacing existing synapses. You may have heard about synapses at some point. A synapse essentially connects neurons and allows information to be transmitted. But there are also so-called “silent synapses”: patchy connections between inactive neurons. Until recently, it was […]

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