Cómo se comunican las neuronas

Ten years after the first edition of this book, Juan Lerma updates and expands this fascinating journey through neural connections and the miracle of synaptic transmission. Due to the intrinsic complexity of the brain, many aspects of its functioning remain unknown. Santiago Ramón y Cajal demonstrated that neurons communicate through specialized contact zones, which Sherrington called synapses (those places where a nerve cell makes functional contact with another in order to communicate with it), and since then the basic mechanisms that govern transmission of information handled by the nervous system. Advances in the knowledge of learning and memory processes, the mechanisms of drug addiction or some diseases such as depression are largely based on the study of neuronal communication. This work describes the elements and ways that neurons use to transmit information; In short, neuronal communication is the fundamental basis of brain function and any minimal disorder leads to a lack of "understanding" between the neurons and, finally, a failure in the flow of information through the brain circuits.