Neuroscience SBSB education series –

The Calyx of Held- this is one of your most important and longest synapses you have in your Brain (auditory) and connects with other neurons to assist them in the localization of sound and proprioceptive perceptive skills.

The image to the right was the incredible drawing from Ramon y Cajal what he was seeing through the microscope in 1910 - 50 years later through the advance technological advance of the microscope and computerized models you can see what it looks like in your brain

The Calyx of Held is a particularly large synapse in the mammalian auditory central nervous system, so named by Hans Held in his 1893 article Die centrale Gehörleitung because of its resemblance to the calyx of a flower

The calyx of Held is a part of the auditory system, connecting the globular bushy cells (GBCs) of the anteroventral cochlear nucleus to the principal neurons of the medial nucleus

Reference University of Denver

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