Sublime

The overall idea is that cells want any information that will help them predict when they will be driven from below.

a balance between excitation and inhibition creates havoc in a neuron and helps explain the variability of the brain.

Part I Meet Your Brain

I will explain how our nervous system has evolved a hierarchical structure, how these hierarchies interact, and how the more advanced systems shut down in the face of overwhelming threat, leaving brain, body and psyche to their more archaic functions.

Neural Darwinism

“untapped portions of our brains,” or “God,”

Neuroscientists sometimes refer disparagingly to these studies as “blobology,” their tongue-in-cheek label for studies that show which brain areas become activated as subjects experience X or perform task Y.