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biological neural network

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network or circuit of neurons

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Encyclopedic overview

Anatomy of a multipolar neuron

A neural circuit is a population of neurons interconnected by synapses to carry out a specific function when activated. Multiple neural circuits interconnect with one another to form large scale brain networks.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “biological neural network” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.