Examples of synaptic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Experts have explored the effects of meditation on our human brain, and there are remarkable differences in our synaptic activity before and after reaching heart congruence. — Annie Brown, Forbes, 13 May 2021 Backpropagation is a method for updating the synaptic weights to descend that gradient. — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021 Not being able to sit together during the mixing process and express elation and disappointment in real time, or observe each other’s reactions without worrying about bandwidth, sapped some of the synaptic spark from the process. — T.m. Brown, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2021 Those incoming action potentials elicit a different kind of electrical signal in the receiving neuron called post synaptic potentials (PSPs). — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021 When mice lived in rich environments, their brains underwent physical changes: More neurons were generated in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, and strong synaptic activity supported learning. — Han Yu, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021 The Company's lead product candidate, SAGE-547 is an intravenous formulation of allopregnanolone, a neurosteroid that acts as a synaptic and extrasynaptic modulator of the Gamma-Amino Butyric Acid-A (GABAA) receptor. — Forbes Quant Trader, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021 That is, the more correlated the activity of adjacent neurons, the stronger the synaptic connections between them. — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021 The materialist interpretation is that consciousness and the mind aren’t separate from the brain, but rather are products of the brain—of neuronal, synaptic and other activity. — WSJ, 20 Dec. 2020

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