Synapses in a sentence

Chemical synapses are not the only type of biological synapse: electrical and immunological synapses also exist.

Electrical synapses are faster than chemical synapses.

Electrical synapses make direct electrical connections between neurons, but chemical synapses are much more common, and much more diverse in function.

In addition, Type I synapses have round synaptic vesicles, whereas the vesicles of type II synapses are flattened.

Type I (excitatory) synapses are typically located on the shafts or the spines of dendrites, whereas type II (inhibitory) synapses are typically located on a cell body.

The brain has a staggering memory capacity, estimated to store around 2.5 million gigabytes of data distributed across billions of neurons and synapses.

This capability enables enhanced brain monitoring through memristors – an emerging semiconductor technology that mimics brain synapses by integrating processing with memory.

Or maybe a couple of synapses fired when she saw me, and a hazy image floated through her mind, one of me on her lap, eating sweets, all those years ago, in her kitchen.

In 2010, a neuroscientist by the name of Diego Bohórquez discovered that a type of cell that lines the inner wall of the gut, otherwise known as enteroendocrine cells, had foot-like protrusions that are similar in appearance to the synapses of neurons.

The tumors, called high-grade gliomas, form synapses that hijack electrical signals from healthy nerve cells to drive their own growth.

Superconducting devices mimicking brain cells and transmission lines have been developed, but until now, efficient synapses – a crucial piece – have been missing.

Synapses sizzling and sputttering, but the they still work!

A large number of synapses are dynamically modifiable; that is, they are capable of changing strength in a way that is controlled by the patterns of signals that pass through them.

Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood.

Chemical synapses pass information directionally from a presynaptic cell to a postsynaptic cell and are therefore asymmetric in structure and function.

Due to the plasticity of the human brain, the structure of its synapses and their resulting functions change throughout life.

Electrical stimulation is transmitted onto dendrites by upstream neurons (usually their axons ) via synapses which are located at various points throughout the dendritic tree.

Here are a few examples of important neurotransmitter actions: * Glutamate is used at the great majority of fast excitatory synapses in the brain and spinal cord.

In a number of parts of the nervous system, neurons and synapses are produced in excessive numbers during the early stages, and then the unneeded ones are pruned away.

In neuronal cells, PPs are present in multiple cellular compartments and play a critical role at both pre- and post-synapses, in the cytoplasm and in the nucleus where they regulate gene expression.