Matt Menge wrote:
> I am currently reading "Psychiatry, Psychoanlysis, and the New Biology
> of the Mind" by Eric Kandel. He mentions that developing neurons "spin
>> out" their axons. Is this just a figure of speech or is there
> something that actually spins?
>> Matt
It's a figure of speech. Neurons don't spin unless you centrifuge them.
Axons grow by an active process involving a "growth cone" at the
developing tip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_cone
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Joe Legris
