Data Transfer In The Brain: Newfound Mechanism Enables Reliable ...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 04/22/2008 - 22:00

The receptors of neurotransmitters move very rapidly. This mobility plays an essential, and hitherto unsuspected, role in the passage of nerve impulses from one neuron to another, thus controlling the reliability of data transfer.


 

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