A team at Case Western Reserve University has found strong evidence that some signals propagate through the brain via weak electrical signals. They detected signals that moved too slow to be explained by known neurological propagation. Further measurements support the conjecture that some information is propagated by weak electrical signals.
The very weak field propagates by evoking a further field in some of its neighbors. One of the scientists, Dominique Durand, stated (excerpted) “… it appears the brain may be using the fields to communicate without synaptic transmissions, gap junctions or diffusion.”
MindFusionX believes this represents yet another mechanism for the brain to process information. This is consistent with our observation there are manifold learning and activation paths in the brain, each with varying degrees of instrumentality for different classes of neural function. We believe this overall view is a very coherent explanation of the diversity of persistence and “intertia” in thought patterns than more psychological based models that rely on nuances of the thought patterns themselves, rather than diversity of brain mechanisms at a lower level.
Case Western Reserve University. “Brain waves may be spread by weak electrical field: Mechanism tied to waves associated with epilepsy.” ScienceDaily, 14 January 2016.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160114121806.htm