Neuron
noun
A cell in the nervous system, which carries messages around the body using electrical signals.
The brain is made up of millions of neurons that send and receive information.
Often appears as...
- motor neuron
- sensory neuron
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Technical
noun
A cell in the nervous system, which carries messages around the body using electrical signals.
The brain is made up of millions of neurons that send and receive information.
Often appears as...
- motor neuron
- sensory neuron
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Term
Used in medical or biological contexts, not in everyday conversation.
In our biology class, we discussed how neurons transmit signals.
Pro Tip 2/3Types of Neurons
The types 'motor', 'sensory', and 'interneuron' refer to neuron functions.
Motor neurons are crucial for muscle movement.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe a network or complex system.
The city's transportation system is like a neuron network.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Term
Used in medical or biological contexts, not in everyday conversation.
In our biology class, we discussed how neurons transmit signals.
Pro Tip 2/3Types of Neurons
The types 'motor', 'sensory', and 'interneuron' refer to neuron functions.
Motor neurons are crucial for muscle movement.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe a network or complex system.
The city's transportation system is like a neuron network.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Term
Used in medical or biological contexts, not in everyday conversation.
In our biology class, we discussed how neurons transmit signals.
Pro Tip 2/3Types of Neurons
The types 'motor', 'sensory', and 'interneuron' refer to neuron functions.
Motor neurons are crucial for muscle movement.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe a network or complex system.
The city's transportation system is like a neuron network.
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How to control someone...
roll up your sleeve a bit, So what I'm going to do, I'm putting electrodes on your arm, and you're probably wondering, I just said I'm going to record from your brain, what am I doing with your arm? Well, you have about 80 billion neurons inside your brain right now. They're sending electrical messages back and forth, and chemical messages. But some of your neurons right here in your motor cortex
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What makes muscles grow?...
because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow. Say you're standing in front of a door, ready to pull it open. Your brain and muscles are perfectly poised to help you achieve this goal. First, your brain sends a signal to motor neurons inside your arm. When they receive this message, they fire,
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The benefits of a...
such as higher density of the grey matter that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases, like Alzheimer's and dementia by as much as five years.
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National Geographic...
we know for certain about consciousness, is that most of us are conscious most of the time. In order to understand anything about the brain and ultimately about psychology, we have to understand neurons. We know a lot about nerve cells in post-mortem, in dead brains and of course in animals. But there's a rare occasion
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How does caffeine keep...
that cause neurons to fire more sluggishly and slow the release of important brain-signaling molecules. In other words, you get sleepy. Caffeine is what's called an adenosine receptor antagonist. That means it derails this process of slowing your neurons down by blocking adenosine receptors.
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What is bipolar...
This process is important because our neural pathways serve as a map for everything we do. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, scientists have discovered that the brain's pruning ability is disrupted in people with bipolar disorder. That means their neurons go haywire
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Why elephants never...
And despite the distant relation, convergent evolution has made it remarkably similar to the human brain, with as many neurons and synapses and a highly developed hippocampus and cerebral cortex. It is the hippocampus, strongly associated with emotion, that aids recollection
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The right brain vs. left...
through the process of growing up more right brained is I'm much friendlier now than I used to be so so although I love cells and I think that neurons are the most beautiful thing in the world underneath the microscope me being in a lab is no longer the best place for me
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Could your brain repair...
the subventricular zone, which may supply neurons to the olfactory bulb for communication between the nose and brain, and the striatum, which helps manage movement. Scientists don't yet have a good grasp on exactly what role
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How Do Cats Use Their...
faster than the human brain. And a far bigger proportion of the neurons in Kali's brain are dedicated purely to the detection of movement. She almost can't help but pounce.
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How to control someone...
roll up your sleeve a bit, So what I'm going to do, I'm putting electrodes on your arm, and you're probably wondering, I just said I'm going to record from your brain, what am I doing with your arm? Well, you have about 80 billion neurons inside your brain right now. They're sending electrical messages back and forth, and chemical messages. But some of your neurons right here in your motor cortex
Video examples
What makes muscles grow?...
because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow. Say you're standing in front of a door, ready to pull it open. Your brain and muscles are perfectly poised to help you achieve this goal. First, your brain sends a signal to motor neurons inside your arm. When they receive this message, they fire,
Video examples
The benefits of a...
such as higher density of the grey matter that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases, like Alzheimer's and dementia by as much as five years.
Video examples
National Geographic...
we know for certain about consciousness, is that most of us are conscious most of the time. In order to understand anything about the brain and ultimately about psychology, we have to understand neurons. We know a lot about nerve cells in post-mortem, in dead brains and of course in animals. But there's a rare occasion
Video examples
How does caffeine keep...
that cause neurons to fire more sluggishly and slow the release of important brain-signaling molecules. In other words, you get sleepy. Caffeine is what's called an adenosine receptor antagonist. That means it derails this process of slowing your neurons down by blocking adenosine receptors.
Video examples
What is bipolar...
This process is important because our neural pathways serve as a map for everything we do. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, scientists have discovered that the brain's pruning ability is disrupted in people with bipolar disorder. That means their neurons go haywire
Video examples
Why elephants never...
And despite the distant relation, convergent evolution has made it remarkably similar to the human brain, with as many neurons and synapses and a highly developed hippocampus and cerebral cortex. It is the hippocampus, strongly associated with emotion, that aids recollection
Video examples
The right brain vs. left...
through the process of growing up more right brained is I'm much friendlier now than I used to be so so although I love cells and I think that neurons are the most beautiful thing in the world underneath the microscope me being in a lab is no longer the best place for me
Video examples
Could your brain repair...
the subventricular zone, which may supply neurons to the olfactory bulb for communication between the nose and brain, and the striatum, which helps manage movement. Scientists don't yet have a good grasp on exactly what role
Video examples
How Do Cats Use Their...
faster than the human brain. And a far bigger proportion of the neurons in Kali's brain are dedicated purely to the detection of movement. She almost can't help but pounce.
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Freddie Stroma
English Actor
If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other motor neuron diseases. It's a very exciting field of research. But I'd like to continue in drama, so it wouldn't be very smart of me if I blew this amazing opportunity with an inappropriate lifestyle.
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Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli Historian
The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.
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Fethullah Gulen
Turkish Activist
I feel the pain of people who suffer in my own neurons and sometimes cannot even watch TV. It is impossible not to be worried. But I trust that however cruel treatment they receive, Hizmet sympathizers will continue to respect to the law and will remain peaceful.
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A. S. Byatt
English Novelist
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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Meg Rosoff
American Writer
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
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Miguel Nicolelis
Brazilian Scientist
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.
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Feng Zhang
The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
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Bill Maris
American Businessman
I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
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Freddie Stroma
English Actor
If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other motor neuron diseases. It's a very exciting field of research. But I'd like to continue in drama, so it wouldn't be very smart of me if I blew this amazing opportunity with an inappropriate lifestyle.
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Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli Historian
The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.
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Fethullah Gulen
Turkish Activist
I feel the pain of people who suffer in my own neurons and sometimes cannot even watch TV. It is impossible not to be worried. But I trust that however cruel treatment they receive, Hizmet sympathizers will continue to respect to the law and will remain peaceful.
Quote examples
A. S. Byatt
English Novelist
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
Quote examples
Meg Rosoff
American Writer
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Quote examples
Miguel Nicolelis
Brazilian Scientist
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.
Quote examples
Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.
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Feng Zhang
The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
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Bill Maris
American Businessman
I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.
Quote examples
Alan Moore
British Writer
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
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