New paper!
Cytoelectric Coupling: Electric fields sculpt neural activity and “tune” the brain’s infrastructure.

Brain waves carry info and alter the brain on the molecular level. This tunes the cytoskeleton, optimizing network function.

Work by Dimitris Pinotsis.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102465

@ekmiller @cogneurophys skeptical, but will read with interest

@karihoffman @cogneurophys

I usually hold off skepticism until after I read something. But you do you.

@ekmiller @cogneurophys really? I often find something seems hard to believe, but then discover a compelling case is made. And then I change my tune. That’s probably how most of our lab’s discoveries or unconventional findings were made.

@karihoffman @cogneurophys

How do you know it is hard to believe until you hear the arguments? Until then, it's just "new".

It's not like we are proposing a new law of physics or new biological principles.

For example, electrical fields guide embryonic development, organizing structures throughout the body. That's how a cell "knows" which part of the finger to migrate to

I would be skeptical if that mechanism shut off after development and wasn't used by the brain, which is electrical.

Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth | Quanta Magazine

Researchers are building a case that long before the nervous system works, the brain sends crucial bioelectric signals to guide the growth of embryonic tissues.

Quanta Magazine
@ekmiller @cogneurophys also, wanna start a dogz spinoff band called “brainless embryos?”

@karihoffman @cogneurophys

Haha! I *love* that!