Physics has misled neuroscience for over two decades (VIDEO)

Bar-Ilan University

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Statistical physicists attempted to explain the brain’s functionality using Excitation-Inhibition balance similarly to magnetic models, yet the theory was experimentally disproven and now, a decade later a different group of statistical physicists is righting the wrong.

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Prof. Ido Kanter, Bar-Ilan University

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