Common neuroscience sensors sometimes get their signals crossed
Cells in the brain communicate in different ways. The classical mode involves tight connections between individual cells that signal only to each other. But over the last decade, new tools have allowed scientists to focus increasingly on other, more diffuse systems in which brain chemicals called neuromodulators communicate with many different cells over longer time frames.
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