# rx-brain
## synapse hillock

**Disclaimer:** all terms used in this project and its documentation are appropriate only in the context of that project. There is no direct link between terms used in neuro science and same terms used in that project.

The modelling of a synapse has been inspired by these videos:

* [Retrograde transport of TfR-GFP in a axon](http://silvermanlab.org/gal_mov_c003.html)
* [Uniform transport of NgCAM-GFP](http://silvermanlab.org/gal_mov_c002.html)
* [Axon outgrowth, Stage 2 to Stage 3 transition](http://silvermanlab.org/gal_mov_c004.html)


in rx-brain project, a synapse is a way to connect a neuron to anything else in the brain.

A synapse is a channel that enables the transport of a data stream from one point to many other points in the brain.

For example, the role of a synapse is to send data generated by a neuron to another neuron or to a collection of other neurons. 

A synapse has one input (basically a neuron) and one to many outputs.

The data received by a synapse is internally handled by an object called hillock.
An hillock is a mechanism that handles the connection with a neuron in order to transmit the data stream generated by this neuron to other parts of the brain.