An Atomic View of Brain Activity
 
   
 
 
                                                                                               Video credit: Wilhelm et al. 2014, Science  
   
Video of An atomic view of brain activity: This, in all its molecular complexity, is what the bulging end of a single neuron looks like.




Hundreds of times smaller than a grain of sand. 300,000 proteins come together to form the structure,  less than a micrometer wide,  This synapse is from a rat brain.  where chemical signals called neurotransmitters are released into the space between neurons to pass messages from cell to cell.
 
 

        

 

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