COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Camillo Golgi, Synaptic Pruning, Cognitive Model
30 Oct 2017
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It consumes 25% of the body energy, while it only takes up about 1% of body weight. Almost he full set of neurons is in place before birth. Unlike most body cells, neurons in the brain are only able to divide to make new cells during fetal development and for a few months after birth. After that, no new brain cells are formed, although existing ones may increase in size until the age of about eighteens years. During childhood, and particularly during adolescence, a process know as. The human brain has about 100 billion very tiny neurons. Each neuron is connected to about 10,000 other neurons. Each neuron only connects directly to a very small portion of other neurons <=> as if you could only communicate directly with 3 other people in canada. Several important diseases of the nervous system are associated with dysfunctions of the dopamine system (ex.
