cosa sono le neuroscienze

Ah, neuroscienze. It’s like the brain is a fancy house and neurosciences are the fancy people coming to study it. Neurosciences are the scientific study of the structure, development, and functions of the nervous system – the system that sends, receives, and processes information in the form of electrical signals throughout your body. Basically, it’s like your brain is a supercomputer, and neurosciences are the people trying to figure out how it works. For example, neurosciences might study how the brain’s neurons (cells) and the connections between them (synapses) form the basis for learning and behavior. Or, they might try to understand how the brain’s chemistry affects those cells and that behavior. Or, they might study how diseases, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, affect the brain’s structure and function. Fun fact: The brain has over 100 billion neurons, and each neuron can connect with up to 10,000 other neurons! That’s a lot of connections!