Neuron Quotes

The wider health implication is that commonly used SSRI antidepressants, which target the uptake of serotonin into neurons, may also impact the uptake in immune cells. - Gerard Ahern

The theory behind the paper is that actual chewing stimulates a neuronal and hormonal reflex that helps to awaken the gut. Certainly, there's a great deal of appeal to that theory. - Dr. Michael Harris

The novelty is that we reveal a potential communication, involving the transmitter serotonin, between immune cells that is normally only found between neurons. - Gerard Ahern

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. - Gregory Bateson

Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer. - Robert Lanza

She's got a deletion of a certain strand of DNA that produces survival motor neurons. Because she doesn't have that, she basically loses the connection from her nerves to her muscles and the muscles (then) atrophy. - Clint Christopher

Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network -- a brain. - Thomas DeMarse

Our research suggests that the pre-Boetzinger complex contains a fixed number of neurons that we lose as we age. - Jack Feldman