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pionar on Sept 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her bra...

Interesting. How was it determined that they're feed-forward-only? Can signals not travel back down the "tree"? (Note, I'm not even an amateur neurologist).

thanatropism on Sept 12, 2014 [–]

It's a different kind of neuron altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum_granule_cell

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