Spying Spines (IMAGE)

Picower Institute at MIT

Spying Spines

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Neurons from the hippocampus region of a rodent brain (left); A zoomed in section of the neural dendrites show spines where many synaptic connections with other neurons are formed.

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Stephanie Barnes/MIT Picower Institute

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