Memory is losing its mystery.... A man's brain contains some 10 billion neurons.... How are new memories established in cells, if they are? An explanation may lie in the dendrites[the branching tips of neurons].... Logically [neurons] can send out new branches, though this has never been observed. Man would require far more subtle instruments than he now possesses to find such new dendritic growth among 10 billion neurons.
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