A Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Has Been Detected in the Human Brain

Summary.

New thing: calcium-mediated dendritic action potentials, or dCaAPs Some neurons can use both sodium ions and calcium ions to fire.

Consequence: dendrites of individual human neocortical pyramidal neurons can classify linearly nonseparable inputs. For example XOR type logic.

So we're removing brain tissue from epileptic patients now?