Earl K. MillerMay 19, 2023

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

Show threadDavid L BarackMay 19, 2023
@ekmiller I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: spikes will turn out to be explanatory epiphenomena as substrate-independent electrical activity will be the explananda for cognition
Show threadEarl K. MillerMay 20, 2023

@dbarack +1000

Check these out.

Cell bodies pressed together. There are no synapses there. Just large expanses of unmyelinated surface area. That is ideal for a direct electrical influence between neurons, i.e., ephaptic coupling.

Show threadCian O’DonnellMay 20, 2023
@ekmiller @dbarack has to be inter-cellular chemical computation going on there too. Neurons are cells
Show threadEarl K. Miller

@cian @dbarack

Yes, indeed. No one said EFs are doing everything. Rather, the claim is that they doing something.

May 21, 2023 at 12:24pmWeb