Hampton Sides

The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.

American Historian

Eric Kandel

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

American Scientist

Brian Sutton-Smith

Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

American Psychologist

Robin Marantz Henig

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.

Writer

Gregory Bateson

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

British Scientist

Deborah Eisenberg

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

American Writer

Richard E. Grant

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

British Actor

Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.

Synaptic refers to critical brain processes and is key in learning about neural functions.

Brain Function

Often used in medical or scientific contexts to discuss nervous system health or disorders.

Medical Context

A term commonly encountered while studying neuroscience, psychology, or biology.

Neuroscience Topic

 is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep. In fact, it's been estimated to give us a threefold advantage. Sleeping at night enhances our creativity. And what seems to be going on is that, in the brain, those neural connections that are important, those synaptic connections that are important, are linked and strengthened,

Why do we sleep? PIPE...

 is thought to correspond to synaptic pruning, the elimination of unwanted synapses. This is a really important process. It's partly dependent on the environment that the animal or the human is in, and the synapses that are being used are strengthened, and synapses that aren't being used

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore:...

 In order to become lasting memories, these sensory experiences have to be consolidated by the hippocampus, influenced by the amygdala, which emphasizes experiences associated with strong emotions. The hippocampus then encodes memories, probably by strengthening the synaptic connections

Does stress affect your...

 through physical connection through synaptic links to put things in perspective Ackerman is like email you will be able to reach out hundred targets but there's no these personal communication whereas a synapse is the face-to-face version of communication you have the ability to

How does our gut talk to...

 There is so much more we can do. Scientists in my lab are creating a technology for quickly mapping the synaptic connections in the brain to tell which neurons are talking to which other neurons and how that conversation changes throughout life and during illness.

How data is helping us...

 From there, it travels to the hippocampus, which strengthens and enhances the neurons in that cortical area. Thanks to the phenomenon of neuroplasticity, new synaptic buds are formed, allowing new connections between neurons, and strengthening the neural network

The benefits of a good...

 be able to map that out in enough detail that ultimately you will be able to render the information that goes into a brain to see the wiring diagram at the resolution of every single synaptic vesicle and every synapse enough resolution we need to see everything

Beautiful 3-D Brain...

 really important developmental process because gray matter contains cell bodies and connections between cells the synapses and this decline in gray matter volume during prefrontal cortex is thought to correspond to synaptic pruning the elimination of unwanted

The mysterious workings...

 We now know that memory formation involves several steps. After immediate sensory data is temporarily transcribed by neurons in the cortex, it travels to the hippocampus, where special proteins work to strengthen the cortical synaptic connections.

What happens when you...

 increasing reinforcement of the synaptic connections. So can we do that with human qualities? With loving kindness, with patience, with openness? So that's what those great meditators have been doing.