Submissions tagged with Synapses
(2 documents)
Human metabolic adaptations and prolonged expensive neurodevelopment: A review
1. After weaning, human hunter-gatherer juveniles receive substantial (≈3.5-7 MJ day-1), extended (≈15 years) and reliable (kin and nonkin food pooling) energy provision.2. The childhood (pediatric...
Received 05 May 2008 18:55 GMT; Posted 05 May 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience
Beyond Spike Timing Theory – Thermodynamics of Neuronal Computation
This paper highlights ionic fluxes as information carriers in neurons. The theoretical framework regarding information transfer is presented as changes in the thermodynamic entropy that underlie sp...
Received 25 October 2007 14:56 GMT; Posted 25 October 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience