Sentences with phrase «more than neurons»

Yet they migrated more than neurons in normal brains, as if trying to make up for their confusion by barreling forward willy - nilly.

«Uncovering the power of glial cells: Brain implants can rely on more than neurons to function.»

Our thoughts, our soul if you wish, is nothing more than neurons and electrical impulses within our brain.

Not exact matches

It's all well and good to have an opinion on what monetary policymakers ought to do (I've mentioned a few already, even though I'm dead sure that Poloz & Co. are much smarter than me); knowing what they are going to do is far more useful, and typically requires fewer neurons.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

If matter is all there is, then ultimately what you think of as your mind is nothing more than a collection of neurons firing inside your skull.

The main problem of creationism is that it stems (and feeds) from the holes of evolutionary biology and this is why no one with more than two neurons take it seriously.

That is possible because the neurons in avian brains are much smaller and more densely packed than those in mammalian brains, the study found.

Glucose is the fuel for neurons, and the cells consume more glucose when they are active than when they are at rest.

The new study provides a more plausible explanation: Birds can perform these complex behaviors because birds» forebrains contain a lot more neurons than any one had previously thought — as many as in mid-sized primates.

Nevertheless, the macaw has more neurons in its forebrain — the portion of the brain associated with intelligent behavior — than the macaque.

Ounce for ounce birds have significantly more neurons in their brains than mammals or primates.»

Not only was Miller right, but the rule change consistently caused twice as many neurons in the prefrontal cortex to fire than in the more simplistic experiments where the task required the animal to just hold a picture in mind.

That is one of the surprising results of the first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of more than two dozen species of birds ranging in size from the tiny zebra finch to the six - foot - tall emu, which found that they consistently have more neurons packed into their small brains than are stuffed into mammalian or even primate brains of the same mass.

Single neurons in the brain are able to convey much more information than was previously thought and can interact to generate potentially super rich representations of sensory stimuli.

This is because rat neurons are much more efficient at pumping ions into the cell than squid neurons, say the team, resulting in squid using up more energy to generate a charge and transmit the signal.

In contrast, late - born neurons are much more accurate, focusing on a single target brain area and only making connections there, rather than reaching out to many different areas.

However, after just 40 milliseconds, more neurons were active when volunteers heard their own ringtone than someone else's, even if this was the one they were assigned (The Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.1113 - 10.2010).

The imagery a sleeping brain concocts appears to originate in the reticular formation (RF), a diffuse, intricate collection of more than 100 networks of neurons arranged throughout the brain.

The brown cells are new neurons, which are more numerous in active mice than sedentary mice, and the blue cells are mature neurons.

Strikingly, despite the overall tendency for male brains to be larger, 10 of these regions had more modulatory neurons in females than in males.

Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections.

Because these young neurons are typically more excitable than their more mature counterparts, exercise should result in more anxiety, not less.

A small proportion of the neurons in the lateral habenula fire several times in quick bursts, rather than firing once at regular intervals; the team found that «depressed» rodents had a lot more of these quick burst cells.

As a result, the cerebellum in apes and humans contains far more neurons than that of a monkey, even when the brain is scaled up to the size it would be in an ape.

«These guys are even more sensitive than neurons,» says Sergey Kasparov, a University of Bristol molecular physiologist.

More than 2000 such neurons are organized into 50 types, each of which transmits information to a specific region of the fly's poppy seed - sized brain.

The upshot: Mirror neurons may be more sidekicks than superheroes, but they're propelling neuroscience in promising new directions.

«Unlike the usual rapid reaction, the neurons responded slowly, fired more weakly and their transmissions dragged on longer than usual.»

Comparing video footage of their stay with their brain activity (see video, above) revealed that the neurons remained virtually silent for most of the time, bursting into life only when the volunteers talked about numbers or numerical concepts such as «more than» or «less than».

But in many cases, a predator didn't seem to have more neurons than its prey.

Boldrini and her colleagues also had access to whole hippocampi, rather than just a few slices, allowing the team to make more accurate estimates of the number of neurons, she says.

These antidepressants, which often have fewer side effects than others, prevent transmitting neurons from quickly soaking serotonin back up that has not been absorbed by receptors on other neurons, thus giving the neurotransmitter more time in the synapse to exert an effect.

For more than a decade, he has embedded electrodes in slices of the hippocampus — which plays a role in learning and memory — and recorded neurons» responses to a wide range of electrical stimuli.

After all, there are many more astrocytes in the brain than there are neurons.

Although nanoflowers do not exactly match the eye's neurons, their geometry would similarly admit light and allow circuits to contact far more neurons than can a simple grid.

Even though the brain contains about a trillion glia — 10 times as many as there are neurons — the assumption was that those cells were nothing more than a passive support system.

Perhaps even more intriguing, our astrocytes are enormous compared with the astrocytes of other animals — 20 times larger than rodent astrocytes — and they make contact with millions of neurons apiece.

The researchers found that mutant mice lacking Del - 1 had more severe attacks of the EAE than normal mice, with more damage to myelin, the fatty sheath that coats neurons and helps in the transmission of signals along the cell.

The new study by the Inagaki lab showed that neurons will produce four times more traction force when placed on adhesive substrates coated with laminin than those without laminin, assuring the axons reach their final destination.

One trillion nerve cells, from motor neuron to sensory neuron, purkinje cell to retinal ganglion cell, must grow right way and link in the right way if the nervous system is to be more than a senseless scramble.

Because carotid cells produce so much dopamine — up to 45 times more than the fetal neurons — and because they thrive in the relatively low oxygen concentrations found in the brain, he explains, they may do a better job at correcting Parkinson's symptoms than the fetal cells do — and they raise fewer ethical questions.

«Our work is the first to suggest that subplate neurons do more than bridge the gap between the thalamus and the cortex, forming the structure for future circuits,» Kanold said.

Last August in Neuron, his team described organoids that survived for more than 20 months — long enough, analyses showed, for astrocytes to mature and function in ways that mimic their real - brain counterparts.

Moreover, because our motion areas also have more neurons that prefer cardinal rather than oblique directions, here the arrow invokes a powerful competition with the FedEx name itself, so our perception vacillates between «FedEx» and forward momentum.

The generation of acts of volition may well be neurologically more complex than was thought, but for those neurons involved to fire without a cause is logically impossible.

The more relevant question is, If right and wrong are nothing more than the instinctive firing of neurons, then does good even exist?

When the scientist compared the neurons of adult and pupae fairy wasps, he discovered that more than 95 % of adult neurons lack a nucleus.

Implants like these could also control prosthetic limbs more precisely because they relay signals from carefully chosen neurons, rather than having software calculate a signal from recordings of many different cells.

April] asked, «If right and wrong are nothing more than the instinctive firing of neurons, why bother being good?»