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Microcircuits in the Nervous System

Nerve circuits are usually analyzed in terms of the axon, the long fiber of the nerve cell. It now appears that there are many circuits involving only the nerve cell's shorter extensions, the dendrites

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 238 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Microcircuits in the Nervous System” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 238 No. 2 (), p. 92
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0278-92