Anonymous ID: 8df61d Oct. 7, 2022, 8:45 p.m. No.17666527   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6697

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-the-story-of-a-crime-martha-s-vineyard-club-guilty-of-involuntary-manslaughter-in-boy-s-drowning-last-summer/ar-AAYjnlX

 

Martha’s Vineyard club guilty of involuntary manslaughter in boy’s drowning

 

EDGARTOWN — On the morning of July 26 last year, Ellie Backer drove her 3-year-old son, Henry, to The Boathouse & Field Club – an exclusive Martha’s Vineyard tennis and pool club — for a morning of activities and swimming with other children. She had applied sunblock to Henry’s arms and made sure to clip his floaties to the outside of his bag, where they would be visible to the club’s counselors, she recalled in a video statement played in court Friday.

 

A few hours later, her husband, Stephen, received a call from the club: There had been an incident with their son. The parents rushed to the club, but there was nothing to be done. Henry had already drowned in the club’s pool, prosecutors said.

 

At the hearing at Dukes County Superior Court, The Field Club’s general manager pleaded guilty on the club’s behalf to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in Henry Backer’s death. The plea comes after the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office determined that the actions of the club and its employees — who left him in a pool with no adult specifically charged with watching him — were so negligent and reckless that they were criminal.

 

“This is not the story of a tragic accident,” Stephen Backer said in the video impact statement. “This is the story of a crime.”

 

David Meier, a lawyer representing the Backer family at the hearing, said, “From day one, the priority for Henry’s parents and family has been about the truth, about transparency, and about accountability.” (Ellie and Stephen Backer did not attend the hearing.)

 

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Anonymous ID: 8df61d Oct. 7, 2022, 8:46 p.m. No.17666609   🗄️.is đź”—kun

A new framework describing the formation and development of learning-related dendritic spines

 

Learning is known to promote the creation of new connections in the brain, particularly excitatory synapses, synapses that increase the likelihood of action potential firing in neurons. Action potentials are changes in electrical potential that are linked to the passage of impulses on the membranes of muscle or nerve cells.

 

Neuroscience studies showed that learning ultimately leads to the formation of new dendritic spines, small protrusions emerging from a neuron's dendrites (i.e., complex, branch-shaped extensions of cells). While this finding is widely documented, the functions of these newly formed, learning-related dendritic spines is still poorly understood.

 

Researchers at University of California, San Diego have recently carried out a study investigating how learning affects the genesis and development of dendritic spines in more depth. Their findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggest that the formation of new spines during learning could in fact be guided by the potentiation of some functionally divided, pre-existing spines.

 

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-framework-formation-learning-related-dendritic-spines.html