How to Use neuron in a Sentence

neuron

noun

• As a result, neurons near the site of the stroke get damaged.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• To fuel all of its neurons, the brain depends on oxygen.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• And many of the traffic cop molecules that direct the growth of neurons in these worms do the same in humans.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Their brains are found to have about 257 billion neurons, around three times more than a human brain.
  — Hazra Khatoon, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• Once the sound enters the brain, neurons shoot up across different parts to decode each lyric, melody and rhythm.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• How do neurons reach out and grab other neurons and send signals to them?
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• Battered and scarred blood vessels that are no longer able to support neurons.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Glioma originates in glial cells that surround and support neurons in the brain, per the website.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
• Every minute during a stroke, neurons in the brain die because of a lack of blood, Effendi said.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• But the human brain has about 16 billion neurons in the cortex alone, not to mention billions more glial cells.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• Futrell says that neurons are like telephone poles sending signals from your brain to other parts of your body.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• Imagine that your brain is the football stadium, and each of the neurons is a person in that stadium.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
• How neurons might inhibit this effect were among his ideas that led to new insights at the workshop.
  — John McCarthy, IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2023
• Enlarge Westend61 Sleep is a semiconscious state, but there are neurons firing in the brain even when all seems quiet.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
• Playing music is thought to build neuron connections in the brain and requires the brain to exercise.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 13 May 2023
• That allows researchers to detect the neuron-firing patterns in his brain that give rise to each movement.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• Inside, there are more than 100 million neurons that allow the gut to work autonomously.
  — Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
• Adderall is thought to work by blocking this leaky protein, preventing dopamine from spewing out of the neuron through the dopamine transporter.
  — Habibeh Khoshbouei, Fortune Well, 7 Apr. 2023
• Due to a neuron’s ability to learn over time, these cells could make computers even better.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2022
• As presented by the Australian Brain Alliance, our brains focus on neuron connections in the first months of our lives.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
• To study the effectiveness of the neuron in restoring the ability to walk and cure paralysis, the researchers began with mice.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 Nov. 2022
• Groups of neurons in the neocortex encode these memories of objects and past events.
  — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
• This reconfiguration prompts the neurons to send signals to the odor-processing parts of the brain.
  — Wynne Parry, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2023
• Important for maintaining the health of neurons, tau can become misfolded and build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• In addition to the remodeled larval neurons, many new neurons are born as the larva grows.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• Even fruit flies, sporting a single neuron for every million in a human brain.
  — Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• The message is clear: This neuron really, really cares about that bar.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2022
• The exterior is as crackly as its appearance promised, and the seasoning (there’s a good amount of salt) hits all my brain’s fast-food neuron grooves.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• In the 1930s, Donald Hebb and others came up with theories of how neurons learn, inspiring the first deep-learning models.
  — Subutai Ahmad, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• The mineral dulls sensory neurons that signal the brain when there is an injury somewhere in the body and trigger the sensation of pain.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024