Ep2: Cells that Fire Together Wire Together - the Science, the History and the Principle

Welcome to Building Your Best Brain Podcast!

In this episode we:

  • Sylvie’s favorite saying in all of neuroscience research!

  • What is a neuron? 

  • What are the building blocks of a circuit in the brain?

  • Excitatory vs. inhibitory neurotransmitters.

  • Dr. Donald Hebb “Hebbian Learning” 

  • The famous rhythm by Dr. Carla Shatz 

  • The break-through research that brought it to life

  • What is neuroplasticity?

Resources:

Instagram page - https://www.instagram.com/synaptic.sylvie/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9aDm5czIeiOSSdeQLjbJUw

Website - https://yoga-with-synapticsylvie.square.site

References:

Hebb D. 1949. The organisation of behaviour. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 

Shatz CJ. 1992. The developing brain. Sci. Am. 267, 60–67. ( 10.1038/scientificamerican0992-60)

Song S, Miller KD, Abbott LF (2000) Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity. Nature Neuroscience 9: 919-926.

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