Sentences with phrase «number of neurons instead»

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Instead mice injected with stem cells developed a far greater number of synapses, or connections between neurons, at the damaged site than control mice did.

Instead of a small number of large, powerful processors working continuously, the brain contains billions of relatively slow, small processors — its neurons — which consume power only when activated.

Instead, our braininess as a species arises from having humongous numbers of just a few types of off - the - rack neurons and from the exponentially greater number of interactions between them.

Instead, most stem cell divisions produce offspring fated to develop into neurons, reducing the number of stem cells remaining.

«Replacing inhibitory neurons instead of excitatory neurons may lower the number of cells required to reverse some of the damage caused by Alzheimer's.»

Instead, a very small number of neurons specifically activated by learning show an expansion of structure that's both surprisingly extensive — there's a dramatic increase in the size and complexity of the affected neurons — and yet highly restricted to a small subset of cells.