EP2: Cells that Fire Together Wire Together - the Science, the History and the Principle 521i6f

Welcome to Building Your Best Brain Podcast!   In this episode we: Sylvie’s favorite saying in all of neuroscience research! What is a neuron?  What are the building blocks of a circuit in the brain? Excitatory vs. inhibitory neurotransmitters. Dr. Donald Hebb “Hebbian Learning”  The famous rhythm by Dr. Carla Shatz  The break-through research that brought it to life What is neuroplasticity?   Resources: Instagram page - https://www.instagram.com/synaptic.sylvie/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC95czIeiOSSdeQLjbJUw Website - https://yoga-with-synapticsylvie.square.site   References: Hebb D. 1949. The organisation of behaviour. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.  Shatz CJ. 1992. The developing brain. Sci. Am. 267, 60–67. ( 10.1038/scientificamerican0992-60) Song S, Miller KD, Abbott LF (2000) Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity. Nature Neuroscience 9: 919-926.   6b5h33