O.S. Sotnikov – Honored worker of science of the Russian Federation, Dr. Sc. (Biol.), Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Functional Morphology and Physiology of the Neuron, I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology of Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg)

E-mail: ossotnikov@mail.ru

New, previously unknown, variants of living nerve networks that prove the reality of the joint synaptic-reticular concept of the nervous system and allow new possibilities of neural network modeling are analyzed.

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