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herwin@mason1.gmu.edu (HARRY R. ERWIN) writes:

>Have there been any studies of the role of the maturity of the GABAergic
>neurons of the association cortex in cortical functioning? An immature or
>sparse system seems to be associated with particular ease in forming
>activation networks involving diverse concepts ('you always have
>interesting ideas'--the Feynman pattern), but also with generalized
>anxiety syndrome and with poor capacity for dealing with social
>interactions. Have there been corresponding studies of the inverse
>condition--relatively dense development of the GABAergic system?

>--
>Harry Erwin
>Internet: herwin@gmu.edu 
>Working on Katchalsky nets....

Could you elaborate on the evidence for the association between the
association cortex GABAergic neurons and "activation networks involving
diverse concepts", etc.?  I am curious about how such data could have
collected from what I assume were human subjects -- post-mortem, perhaps?

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Kevin Spencer
Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
kspencer@p300.cpl.uiuc.edu / kspencer@psych.uiuc.edu
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