But at some point, a couple of brain synapses failed to fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heartwrenching Tale Of Human Folly] Reference

More brain synapses are fired during a 3D presentation - it is physically more appealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [3D Gets a Boost of Positive News - Really? « FirstShowing.net] Reference

He, Oakley and the rest of the team listed all the genes known to be operative in synapses in the human nervous system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference

The old brain synapses don’t work like they used to!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » VIDEO: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD] Reference

I already feel the magic of pomegranate juice strengthening my brain synapses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writerly Resolutions] Reference

It continues to make new connections—called synapses—in response to the choices you make every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Find Your Focus Zone] Reference

Depression and anxiety were located in the gaps between the synapses, which is precisely where they were treated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurozine articles] Reference

A little like genomics, which maps our genetic makeup, connectomics aims to map the brain's connections, known as synapses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Turns out sea sponges contain genes for synapses, which is rather surprising, considering sea sponges don't even have nerve systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference

This tolerance occurs at the receptor site—the tiny gap between the neurons in the brain where connections called synapses take place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Find Your Focus Zone] Reference

A typical neuron makes about 5000 connections called synapses with other neurons, producing a neural network with 500 trillion nodes in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Neuropsychology: Shift Your Brain and Thus Your Mind] Reference

She had her own kind of synapses, which would wear out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

It blocks presynaptic inhibitory synapses, meaning that it tends to increase central and peripheral adrenergic activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Highs Frequently Asked Questions by Vince Cavasin] Reference

A 3-dimensional view of an HIV-infected immune cell forming "synapses" with three target cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Why Files] Reference

Does musical training prime the synapses for learning math?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncovering Secrets, Big And Small] Reference

Experience seems to exert its effects by strengthening synapses.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Baby's Brain] Reference

They will rise up on bloody memory, shout their synapses to the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading at the Anatomy Museum] Reference

When it's swallowed, a patient's synapses seize on his happiest memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hard Pill To Swallow] Reference

In our new program we reset your synapses tobeattracted to social justice!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come and be a part of it!] Reference

On one level it is about neurons and synapses, seratonin levels and dopamine readings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healing Myself With The Power Of Work] Reference

My limbs are connected to me by sinew and tissue, the synapses in my brain control them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Packing, Driving, and the Meaning of Everything.] Reference

At birth, the brain's 100 billion or so neurons form more than 50 trillion connections (synapses).    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Baby's Brain] Reference

Surely raising serotonin levels should right the synapses '"chemical imbalance" and lift depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Depressing News About Antidepressants] Reference

CREB is the brain's sculptor: it forms memories by reshaping the synapses, or spaces between neurons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine's Next Level] Reference

In the first months of life, the number of synapses will increase 20-fold-to more than 1,000 trillion.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Baby's Brain] Reference

Dopamine flooded your brain; the electricity from the firing synapses caused the hair on your arms to stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch from Bilbao] Reference

SCIENTISTS STUDYING THINGS like nerve regeneration and brain synapses are developing tinier and tinier tools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiny Probes] Reference

Advertisers may be disappointed to hear it, but there is no "Buy now!" switch hidden among the neurons and synapses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing and Mind Control] Reference

A sense that one thing causes another forms synapses that will eventually support more abstruse concepts of causality.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Baby's Brain] Reference

The formation of synapses (synaptogenesis) and their pruning occurs at different times in different parts of the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Baby's Brain] Reference

Sure, much of it had to do with the layers of plaque on his brain's misfiring synapses, which stole the emotion from his words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do We Need To Go There Again?] Reference

In that same minute a decision is being made, Mr. Nowinski says, "there are millions of neurons and billions of synapses dying.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeding Up Stroke Care] Reference

Memories are "stored" in these synapses: changing the strength of the synapses increases the strength of the memories they store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sleep Now, Remember Later] Reference

The formation of synapses begins in the cerebral cortex, for example, during the 7th week of gestation and continues well into childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anat Baniel: Low-Back Pain: Is It Really All in Your Head?] Reference