The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has found a new research about the one part of the neurons in the brain that is more active than previously revealed. This new study implies that the scientist might change their understanding of how the brain works and it can lead to a better ways to treat the neurological disorders.

The new research, according to New Atlas will be focussing on the structure and function of the dendrites that is attached to a roundish body called the soma to form neurons. Somas generate a brief electrical activity called spikes, which connects and communicate with each other.

However, the study has shown that dendrites are not just a passive conduits as it moves freely and it generates nearly 10 times more spikes than previously believed. The findings challenge the long-held belief that somatic spikes are the primary way people to learn and form memories and perceptions.

Moreover, UCLA Newsroom added that dendrites can make up to 90 percent of neutral tissue, knowing that they are much more active than the soma. The researchers also found out that dendrites are hybrids that can do both analog and digital computations.

A UCLA professor of physics and astronomy of neurology and neurobiology Mehta said that the fact that dendrites are about 100 times bigger in volume than somas, it is possible that human brain has a capacity of 100 times more to compute information. In a recent study in slicing brain shows that dendrites can generate spikes.

In measuring dendrites' electrical activity during on its natural behavior has been a long challenge because they are so fragile. However, UCLA team developed a new method that involves in placing the electrodes near instead in the dendrites. One of the researchers indicates that if neuron and dendrites are active, the learning will take place and suggest a lot more flexibility in how learning can develop in just a single neuron.

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