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How Brains Really Work: Neurons Firing Explained!

How Brains Really Work: Neurons Firing Explained!

Basic neuroscience, explained from memory.

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Owen Scott Muir, M.D, DFAACAP
Aug 30, 2022
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This articles is going to explain, in mild to moderately entertaining format, the basics of how our brains work1, and how they sometimes don’t. The challenge to myself is to do it from memory.2 This is also my foray into paid content. So the idea is I’m going to write things, like this piece, which will presumably not be opinion pieces, although I will, likely, express opinions. But it’s really like more a “fun” version of a textbook of medicine, one chapter at a time. Some portion of the way through this tantalizing piece of explaining, there’s gonna be a paywall. Here’s a pro tip. If you sign up, you get to keep reading, because I’m going to auto comp you. I’m not gonna make you pay for it. Not yet anyway. It’s just gonna make you sign up for my subscription list. But eventually, behind that paywall, there’s content. Might it be that people might want because it teaches them something useful? The idea is not to make my readers want to choke on their own tongue out of sheer boredom…

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