neuronin a sentence
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A healthy heart and increased stimulation help improve circulation which enhances memory by keeping neurons active.
neurons = brain cells
- "Use your neurons," said Crake. (source)
- If you tried to conduct the necessary neurons your brains would explode.† (source)
- However, if you put them in emotionally charged situations-like physical trauma, extreme joy or fear, deep meditation-all of a sudden their neurons start firing like crazy, resulting in massively enhanced mental clarity.† (source)
- Among other things, omega-3s are important for the growth of brain cells and other neurons.† (source)
- Whatever we call it—mind, character, soul—we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that "animates" us.† (source)
- I realized that it had taken every neuron and synapse in his brain to frame that distinction.† (source)
- It was alarming how fast my cosmically perfect neurons had deteriorated.† (source)
- It is capable of carrying new genes into existing neurons and genetically reengineering them.† (source)
- Racing against her own failing neurons.† (source)
- How do I know I really want to go and it isn't just some neurons firing or something?† (source)
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- Each was accompanied by waves of delight and joy but he wasn't sure if they were real or a hallucination conjured up by collisions between some damaged or otherwise wayward neurons and the drugs coursing through his veins.† (source)
- Prior exactly what mirror neurons do?† (source)
- I laugh despite myself, and my body spasms, neurons blazing, nausea coming at me.† (source)
- Panic shuts down neurons.† (source)
- I've gone insane, I cried, I but the thought itself was nothing but dancing electrical charges, sparks between neurons that I could see behind my eyes.† (source)
- "The only way to find out is to do the science," Gottschall says, reasonably enough, and then announces that "the constant firing of our neurons in response to fictional stimuli strengthens and refines the neural pathways that lead to skillful navigation of life's problems" and that the studies show that therefore people who read a lot of novels have better social and empathetic abilities, are more skillful navigators, than those who don't.† (source)
- Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons.† (source)
- Some jittery and feverish nervous activity, I felt, some abnormally frantic interchange of neurons in their chaotic synapses, was taking place under each square millimeter of his skin.† (source)
- There are some forty thousand neurons packed together in a square millimeter of the cerebral cortex, in such a fashion that each one has several hundred synaptic connections with others about it.† (source)
- She held a neuron scrambler in her hand and she was still laughing; but the gun was trained on his skull and never wavered.† (source)
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God is a cluster of neurons, he'd maintained.
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neurons = nerve or brain cells
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She wasn't stupid, said Jimmy's dad, she just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.
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neuron = a nerve or brain cell
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He was doing a pretty good imitation of their Chemlab teacher — the use-your-neurons line, and that clipped, stiff delivery, sort of like a bark.
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neurons = nerve or brain cells
- Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites.† (source)
- The messages sent between neurons are incorrect somehow.† (source)
- You have an abundance of a particular kind of neuron, called, quite simply, a mirror neuron.† (source)
- Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites.† (source)
- They're just neurons firing randomly in your brain.'† (source)
- Neurons and mastocytes dump serotonin into my bloodstream.† (source)
- He found the neuron scrambler he had taken from Chooka Frood's red-eyed woman.† (source)
- It would jam their mother-tongue neurons and prevent Rife from programming them with new me," Hiro says.† (source)
- Mirror neurons fire both when one performs an action and when one sees another person performing that action.† (source)
- Then all the dendrites and neurons and serotonin levels and interpreters collect themselves and trot over to the corner.† (source)
- It's all this activity in the brain and you don't know what's you as a person and what's some neuron that just happens to fire or just happens to misfire.† (source)
- "More specifically," Jeanine says, and this time she does smile at me, broadly, forcing creases into her cheeks, "someone with many, strong mirror neurons could have a flexible personality—capable of mimicking others as the situation calls for it rather than remaining constant."† (source)
- Do they become a tangle of neurons?† (source)
- It's like a war of neurons.† (source)
- Jason's neurons fired.† (source)
- I went down to my car and uncapped the tube of sunblock I'd spotted on a rack near the front desk in the mom-and-pop motel, next to the postcards and Indian dolls—the kachina dolls and snack packs of tortilla chips that are part of some curious neuron web of lonely-chrome America.† (source)
- I see the compound, shaped like the picture of a neuron I once saw in my science textbook, and the fence that surrounds it.† (source)
- The machine received and amplified the patterns of electrical activity being conducted in the Hangman's, might well call it 'brain', then passed them through a complex modulator and pulsed them into the induction field in the operator's head … I am out of my area now and into that of Weber and Fechner, but a neuron has a threshold at which it will fire, and below which it will not.† (source)
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However uncomfortable people were about your existence, their overwhelming concern was that their own children, their spouses, their parents, their friends, did not die from cancer, motor neurone disease, heart disease.†
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unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option that has become increasingly less common. Neuron is more commonly used today.
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