Some women after this procedure put clamps on the chest of their daughter.

At that time the company's product was still based on hooks and eyes.

In general, the exchange of information between the billions of neurons that make up the neuronal forest takes place through two types of highly specialized structures chemical synapses (the majority) and so called gap junctions (a substrate of one class of electrical synapse).

So all of those colored lines correspond to bunches of axons, the fibers that join cell bodies to synapses.

The brain s wiring its synaptome is the anatomical substrate for a variety of functions that require information to be communicated rapidly from one point to another.

Rapid and automatic serial reconstruction of large tissue volumes, enabled by the recent development of automated electron microscopy techniques, is the method of choice in defining the synaptome.

Indeed, even for a small mammal like the mouse, it is impossible to reconstruct the brain completely at the ultrastructural level, because the magnification needed to visualize synapses yields relatively small images.

Ephaptic coupling is a form of communication within the nervous system and is distinct from direct communication systems like electrical synapses and chemical synapses.

Increased synaptic plasticity the ability of synapses to adjust their strength, which is essential to healthy brain function could be the neurobiological reason for the apparent therapeutic effect in patients.