jordan jordan jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · Jun 15 1 / 2
And it's just... always true. EVERY synapse is like this. Glia are EVERYWHERE. Here's the same synapse in two views; the glia (green) surrounds the synapse, and could foreseeably tune/train/kill it. HOT TAKE: I think big chunks of learning & memory will turn out to be mainly driven by this :)
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Here's a beautiful shot of a single dendritic spine (black). It has ~3 synaptic partners (blue). But it has nearly TWENTY contact partners (red), which could be electrically or chemically influencing it! (thank you @blender.org for making it so easy to create videos like this ❤️)