Sentences with phrase «when synaptic connections»
«Up - regulating MHCI is essential for the maternal immune response, but changing MHCI activity in the fetal brain when synaptic connections are being formed could potentially affect synapse density,» Boulanger said.
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Maybe it did the opposite, telling neurons in the adult brain when to let those synaptic connections weaken — and, ultimately, be pruned away.
Most researchers interpret this activity as the brain slowly reinforcing synaptic connections that already exist, but Tononi noticed that after each wave, the brain goes completely silent, which never happens when we're awake.
It occurs when one neuron fires closely after another, which strengthens their synaptic connection and makes it slightly more likely the first will trigger the second in the future.
Long - term memories likely form when selective alterations in synaptic connections occur within patterns of neurons called neuronal ensembles.
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.»
When the researchers modeled the effects in mice, they found it strengthened the connections between neurons that make learning possible — what is known as synaptic plasticity — by increasing the action of a cell receptor critical to forming memories.
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.
When tau proteins get tangled, its ability to support synaptic connections is damaged.
When you are happy you release the happy hormone SEROTONIN, serotonin makes connections, it helps the brain cells to conduct messages across the synaptic gap.
When neurons are frequently fired, synaptic connections are strengthened; the opposite is true for neurons that are rarely fired.
When students learn a new piece of information, they make new synaptic connections.