--- title: Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from... description: A new MIT Picower Institute study published in Cerebral Cortex demonstrates that local electric fields in the brain influence neural activity on a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/electric-fields-help-guide-neural-activity-even-from-moment-to-moment-bvnsrmapz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment | daily.dev og:description: A new MIT Picower Institute study published in Cerebral Cortex demonstrates that local electric fields in the brain influence neural activity on a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/electric-fields-help-guide-neural-activity-even-from-moment-to-moment-bvnsrmapz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BVNsrmaPz.png og:image:alt: Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new MIT Picower Institute study published in Cerebral Cortex demonstrates that local electric fields in the brain influence neural activity on a moment-to-moment basis through ephaptic coupling. Using Granger Causality analysis on data from animals performing a working memory task, researchers found that mesoscale electric fields dominate over individual neural spiking, acting as top-down control parameters. The strength of ephaptic coupling was proportional to variability in local field potentials. The researchers suggest that because electric fields can be externally manipulated, this understanding could lead to therapeutic interventions for neurological diseases by adjusting faulty circuits at the field level rather than individual synaptic connections. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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