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A new hypothesis links stress and inflammation to lowered neuronal activation thresholds, potentially explaining why rumination, flashbacks, and hearing voices can feel involuntary


We propose that the excitability margin (ΔVmargin), defined as the difference between spike threshold and resting membrane potential, may function as a quant...

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