Sentences with phrase «like numbers of neurons»

The study results were published online in a paper titled «Birds have primate - like numbers of neurons in the forebrain» in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences early edition on the week of June 13.

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By combining a large number of neuron - imitating skyrmions, the thinking goes, scientists could create a computer that operates something like a brain.

In this sense, Damasio's career mirrors the evolution of the brain sciences, which no longer focus exclusively on the microscopic tanglings of neurons and have made steady inroads into a number of fields like economics, sociology, literary theory, and political science.

Toxicants like solvents, pesticides or volatile molecules from oil spills can travel straight into the brain via the olfactory receptors — nasal neurons that number in the many millions, thickly studding the inner lining of the nose.

Each odor - detecting neuron (referred to as olfactory sensory neuron from here on), chooses a single odorant receptor gene from a fairly large number of options that are split into class I (fish - like) and class II (terrestrial - specific) odorant receptors.

Wu says these changes in number of neurotransmitter release sites account for how the neurons are able to adjust over time using a system for sleep drive that works over a period of hours, rather than minutes, like the known sleep - promoting chemicals.

Even though it may sound like a small difference the 14 billion neurons amount to pretty much the number of neurons that a baboon brain has or almost half the number of neurons in the gorilla brain.

The analysis in the G93A mice showed that lithium delayed cell death within lamina IX and cranial MN while it increased the number of lamina VII Renshaw - like neurons above control values.