{"id":1510,"date":"2020-12-29T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/139.91.162.68\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:27:37","slug":"featured-in-the-years-biggest-breakthroughs-in-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dendrites.gr\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Featured in the Year’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our collaborative study with the lab of Matthew Larkum that was published earlier this year\u00a0 in\u00a0Science Magazine<\/a>\u00a0has made into the Year’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology by Quanta Magazine.<\/p>\r\n

In a nutshell:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Albert Gidon in the Larkum Lab (add link to the Larkum lab) discovered that L2\/3 neurons in the human brain have a new type of dendritic spike, with a peculiar feature: as the stimulus intensity\u00a0increases, the amplitude of this dendritic spike decreases. Using biophysical modelling, Dr. Papoutsi in our lab demonstrated that this special type of dendritic spike allows a single human neuron to solve the XOR problem, a complex computation that requires networks of artificial neurons to be solved. This work shows that human neurons -and in fact their\u00a0dendrites- are capable of solving difficult computational problems, previously thought impossible to solve at the single cell or dendrite level.<\/p>\r\n

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