1.) “Google” a neuroscience topic. Find an article on the web that describes a neuroscience discovery. The article must have been published in 2016-2018. Summarize the article in 2-5 sentences and tell us why you chose this article. Try to Cut/paste the article or hyperlink on your posting. If you can’t, then provide a reference so that we can look it up and provide an active link.
Some people believe that “all you are” is determined by the types and amount of neurotransmitters that ooze through your synaptic gaps and the electrical current in your brain.
2.) Do you think that all of your thoughts, hopes, dreams and aspirations are results of physiological processes; your love, hate, anger and memories are only at the synaptic level? Why or why not?
3.) How is the ability to form new ways of thinking (i.e., new neural networks) useful to us as human beings?
4.) What are some functions that this ability might allow us to perform?
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