EARTHQUAKES IN THE BRAIN

The amazing quantity of information required to initialize the enormou s number of connections on which is based the neuron network functioni ng cannot possibly be encoded in the genome. The answer to this puzzli ng problem could be in self-organized criticality. In order to apply t his idea we have introduced a refractary period in the famous Bak-Snep pen model. We also compare our results with real measurements of singl e neuron activity.