dendrites

A neuron has hundreds to thousands axons and dendrites and connect with other neurons in a dense network.

For a brain, there are a finite number of neurons with a finite number of dendrites and axons.

For starters, it doesn't sound like they model a diversity of neuron structures, nor even ion channels or dendrites.

Either way, nerve cells are essentially highly specialized finicky amoeba, with dendrites acting as elaborately decorated pseudopods.

In contrast, cell body size and the number of primary dendrites did not differ between active and inactive animals.

Conversely, an action potential initiated in the dendrites doesn't necessarily faithfully propagate to the cell body (soma).

There are very many more types of functions, linear and non-linear, that can conceivably be built out of neuronal dendrites.

Mechanical storage of charge will probably involve a nanostructure of dendrites and spheres which are filled and emptied using magnetic fields.

There is a lot of evidence that action potentials backpropagate into the dendrites [1].

In fact, most of a neuron's computation my be carried out by the dendrites.

Students probably just didn't know the extent of the dendrites and their structure, the fact that the axon is usually longer and thinner etc so they drew what they see in Books/magazines.

We then digitally reconstructed their cell bodies and dendrites at different rostrocaudal levels.

All this "information processing" with branched dendrites + non-linear ion channels are greatly expanded with a timing component.

"We then digitally reconstructed their cell bodies and dendrites..." Does this mean that the experiment was done in simulation?

On a local level, this allows synapses on the dendrites to "be aware" of the activity of the post-synaptic neuron.

We are fond of the saying, "worksheets don't build dendrites" around here.