Latest news from Institute of Experimental Medicine on Newswise en-us Copyright 2024 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/neurons-sync-their-beats-like-clocks-on-the-wall/?sc=rsin /articles/neurons-sync-their-beats-like-clocks-on-the-wall/?sc=rsin Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:00:00 EST In 1665, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens hanged two of his recently invented pendulum clocks on a wooden beam and observed that as time passed, the clocks aligned their beats. Three and a half centuries later, neurons in the brain were found to sync their activities in a similar way. Institute of Experimental Medicine