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For over 100 years now human beings have thought that everything abut the brain could be explained by way of electrochemical impulses within it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_neuroscience
Humanity has known about neurons since the 1890s thanks to early pioneers in the field, and science has gradually produced a better understanding about how various chemical exchanges allow the neurons to fire, but everything has focused on the primacy of the electrical nature of the brain and the nervous system. That may be about to change completely.
Thomas Heimburg, Professor for Biophysics at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-heimburg-147a827/?locale=de_DE
has brought a good deal of what we thought we knew about the human nervous system into question. The fact is that, while we understood a great deal about neurons, that the model wasn't nearly predictive enough to be considered definitive.
Now, what Heimburg is proposing is not that there is no electrical activity within the nerves, but that it plays a different role to that which we had previously believed. Specifically that the electrical impulses do not turn nerves "on", but turn them "off". Instead he proposes that nerves act more like cells in a liquid crystal display television, and that fatty liquid within the neurons become chemically crystalized, producing a mechanical shockwave which activates the nervous system in relay, much like dropping a ton of bricks in a canal causes a shock wave. The electrics then activate to decrystalize the fats back into liquid again allowing for future signals. This is a gross analogous simplification of the actual process of course, but may serve as a very basic introduction for people who are new to the information.
I bring this to your attention as this idea is very fresh, and may well overtake the current views on how the nervous system works. It is also supported by a good deal of experimental data. In particular it offers a better explanation of how anesthetics work, and that has been a field with many anomalies for decades. For those with a long term interest in the field and who have known for years that there is something badly wrong with the orthodox theory, it provides a tantalizing alternative to an entrenched theory that doesn't answer enough anymore.
The paper, On Soliton Propagation in Biomembranes and Nerves:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7750401_On_soliton_propagation_in_biomembranes_and_nerves
Related info:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-thermodynamics-thought-soliton-spikes-heimburg-jackson.html
Be warned, you must be ready to dive into wikipedia after the various terms you may not understand, for there may be many. Foremost among these is the notion of a "soliton":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton
Youtube video:
Humanity has known about neurons since the 1890s thanks to early pioneers in the field, and science has gradually produced a better understanding about how various chemical exchanges allow the neurons to fire, but everything has focused on the primacy of the electrical nature of the brain and the nervous system. That may be about to change completely.
Thomas Heimburg, Professor for Biophysics at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-heimburg-147a827/?locale=de_DE
has brought a good deal of what we thought we knew about the human nervous system into question. The fact is that, while we understood a great deal about neurons, that the model wasn't nearly predictive enough to be considered definitive.
Now, what Heimburg is proposing is not that there is no electrical activity within the nerves, but that it plays a different role to that which we had previously believed. Specifically that the electrical impulses do not turn nerves "on", but turn them "off". Instead he proposes that nerves act more like cells in a liquid crystal display television, and that fatty liquid within the neurons become chemically crystalized, producing a mechanical shockwave which activates the nervous system in relay, much like dropping a ton of bricks in a canal causes a shock wave. The electrics then activate to decrystalize the fats back into liquid again allowing for future signals. This is a gross analogous simplification of the actual process of course, but may serve as a very basic introduction for people who are new to the information.
I bring this to your attention as this idea is very fresh, and may well overtake the current views on how the nervous system works. It is also supported by a good deal of experimental data. In particular it offers a better explanation of how anesthetics work, and that has been a field with many anomalies for decades. For those with a long term interest in the field and who have known for years that there is something badly wrong with the orthodox theory, it provides a tantalizing alternative to an entrenched theory that doesn't answer enough anymore.
The paper, On Soliton Propagation in Biomembranes and Nerves:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7750401_On_soliton_propagation_in_biomembranes_and_nerves
Related info:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-thermodynamics-thought-soliton-spikes-heimburg-jackson.html
Be warned, you must be ready to dive into wikipedia after the various terms you may not understand, for there may be many. Foremost among these is the notion of a "soliton":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton
Youtube video:
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