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Published on: September 3, 2014
Persistence of Correlations in Neurotransmitter Transport through the Synaptic Cleft
Masroor Khonkhodzhaev1, Shota Maglakelidze2, Yonatan Dubi3
1Physics Department, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA.
Abstract:
The "quantum brain" proposal can revolutionize our understanding of cognition if proven valid. The core of the most common "quantum brain" mechanism is the appearance of correlated neuron triggering induced by quantum correlations between ions. In this work, we examine the preservation of the correlations created in the pre-synaptic neurons through the transfer of neurotransmitters across the synaptic cleft, a critical ingredient for the validity of the "quantum brain" hypothesis. We simulated the transport of two neurotransmitters at two different clefts, with the only assumption that they start simultaneously, and determined the difference in their first passage times. We show that in physiological conditions, the correlations are persistent even if the parameters of the two neurons are different.
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