Sentences with phrase «how synaptic connections»
In research published in Nature Materials on 26 September [2016], Yang and his team mimicked a crucial underlying component of how synaptic connections get stronger or weaker: the flow of calcium.
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Still, researchers now have a far better understanding of the molecular pathways in the ear and how to regenerate hair cells and repair synaptic connections.
Geoff Hinton, a leading neural networking theorist, argues the hardware is useless without the proper «learning algorithm» spelling out which factors change the strength of the synaptic connections and by how much.
Learning more about how synapses change their connections could help scientists better understand neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, since many of the genetic alterations linked to autism are found in genes that code for synaptic proteins.
To examine this hypothesis we will identify the molecular changes to astrocytes during the aging process and then determine how these changes in aging affect the synaptic connections between neurons.