• skye@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    considering how synapses in the brain get stronger if both neurons fire, and how paralysis is most of the time caused by a severance in the connectivity of 2 (or way more) neurons…

    Yeah this looks like it could be the reason why

    P.S: This comment is made with not much knowledge in anatomy (past highschool level), take with a shaker of salt

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Yup my comment is also made with very little to no googling. I’m sure there’s a big reason why we … probably because you can’t be testing things on actual people. It would be horrible to watch someone explain how they figured out that the spinal chord does X because when you shock Z you get a twitch on Y. It’s all the twitching.