In fact, as introduced above, what happens at the synapse is not electrical at all. Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 The chemicals assault receptors in an insect’s nerve synapse, causing uncontrollable shaking, paralysis, and death. Oliver Milman, Wired, 12 Mar. 2022 The quick-witted rapper’s wordplay keeps listeners at the edge of their seats, eagerly awaiting the elation of that next unexpected synapse. Nora Lee, Billboard, 16 June 2022 Daydreaming ignites neural synapse activity in deeper regions of the brain and gives the frontal neo-cortex a break. Natalie Nixon, Forbes, 16 May 2022 The researchers imaged the pallium before and after the fish learned, and analyzed the changes in synapse strength and location.Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022 But artificial intelligence researchers typically have to train artificial neural networks on hundreds or thousands of examples of a pattern or concept before the synapse strengths adjust enough for the network to learn the pattern.Quanta Magazine, 7 July 2021 Most drugs for neurodevelopmental disorders act at the level of the synapse by changing neurotransmitters, Davis explained. Katie Palmer, STAT, 5 Aug. 2021 Once tau pathology is clearly established, however, microglia may drive synapse loss and the death of neurons. Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
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His University of Pavia lab studies synapse formation as well as collagen production and its possible implications in cancer metastasis. Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 16 Mar. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
New Latin synapsis, from Greek, juncture, from synaptein to fasten together, from syn- + haptein to fasten