Sentences with phrase «synaptic connections with»

There are 100 billion neurons in the average human brain, and each makes 5,000 synaptic connections with other neurons.

A microscope image shows the location in the brain of a mouse where nerve cells from the ear enter the brain and form cup - like synaptic connections with brain cells.

The human brain contains as many as 100 billion neurons, most of which make hundreds to thousands of synaptic connections with specific target cells.

In a developing fetus, she surmised, those phone calls would reach groups of nerve cells in the LGN; as their synaptic connections with the retinal neurons strengthened, the LGN neurons would begin forming «area codes» of their own.

Synaptic plasticity, the ability of neurons to alter the strength of their synaptic connections with activity and experience, is thought to play a critical role in memory storage.

Not exact matches

At first Modha and his team hit a wall before they reached 40 percent of the number of neurons present in the mouse cerebral cortex: roughly 8 million neurons, with 6,300 synaptic connections apiece.

Bees with a greater density of nerve connections (known as synaptic complexes) in a specific part of their brains had better memories and learned faster than bees with fewer connections in these areas.

All these fast, slow and intermediate electrical impulses and synaptic connections happen continuously, with their pace peaking in the morning.

Neurons communicate with each other via synaptic connections.

The brain is a soft, squishy organ, which has evolved over millions of years, and its synaptic connections are not electronic but electrochemical (hence our sluggish ability to solve equations, compared with a computer's speed).

As professor Holtmaat explains: «It is possible that sensory stimulation, when combined with another activity (motor activity, for example), works better for strengthening synaptic connections.»

The neurons in the cerebral cortex that transmit the information modify the synaptic connections that they have with the other neurons.

The neurons in the cerebral cortex responsible for ensuring the transmission of the relevant information, then modify the synaptic connections that they have with other neurons.

However, later in life, the truncated version of Shank3 interfered with synaptic functions and connections in the brain's cortex, where executive functions such as thought and planning occur.

It has been known for decades that triggering new protein synthesis is vital to the formation of long - term memories as well as for long - lasting synaptic plasticity — the ability of the neurons to change the collective strength of their connections with other neurons.

Projection neurons form connections with memory neurons at synaptic junctions that resemble small bulbs strung along the wire - like axons.

Researchers then analyzed the mouse brain tissue and found that the mice with elevated klotho had twice as many GluN2B subunits within synaptic connections.

When ASD astrocytes (red) are cultured with ASD neurons (red) neuronal development is impaired; the neuron has a smaller cell body, extends less dendritic processes which are thick and stunted, and receives less synaptic connections.

It is the changes in the synaptic connections in areas of the brain such as the cerebral cortex and hippocampus that is associated with the learning and retention of new information.