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Self-organisation or reflex theory?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

George Székely
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, University Medical School, Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt 98, Hungaryszekely@chondron.anat.dote.hu

Abstract

Neuromodelling is one of the techniques of modern neurosciences. The “at a distance” type of triadic synapse is probably the prevailing form of impulse transmission in many parts of the brain. If the genetically controlled cell-to-cell neuronal interconnections are abandoned, self-organisation may be the mechanism of structure formation in the brain. This assumption weakens the position of the reflex arc as the basic functional unit of nervous activities.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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