How to Use synapse in a Sentence
synapse
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The space between the layers was said to represent the synapse.
—Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2013
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Over time, even their brain cells, synapses, blood flow and nervous systems start to be impaired.
—Ramin Skibba, Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2017
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In one of these moods, conscious thought seems to be turned off in favor of all synapses firing at the same time.
—Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 19 Feb. 2017
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In fact, as introduced above, what happens at the synapse is not electrical at all.
—Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
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At least until researchers find a way to hack into the network of synapses that comprise the brain.
—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
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The synapse is the space that separates a dendrite or axon from another cell.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
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The heart of this new synapse is a device called a magnetic Josephson junction.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2018
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The sound of church bells and the clatter of feet on cobblestones, even the foreign purr of a diesel engine, calm your synapses.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2017
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Our brain cells communicate by sending signals to one another across a small gap called a synapse.
—Dallas News, 14 July 2022
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Every synapse of my brain is so utterly overwhelmed, there is no capacity left to think about the world out there.
—Christoph Niemann, New York Times, 20 May 2020
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But what about the existence of the synapse; isn’t that crucial to signaling in a neural network?
—Suzanne Simard, Wired, 7 May 2021
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Whether that spike is enough to cause the next neuron to fire a spike of voltage itself depends on how strong the connection at the synapse is.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2018
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Synapses—the cell-to-cell links that serve as the bits of the brain’s operating system—play an important role too.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 May 2017
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Dendritic spines form half of the synapse and are essential to connecting neurons.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2019
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Firing may trigger connected neurons to fire, too, depending on the weight of the synapse between them.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 July 2013
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Glanzman knows his unceremonial demotion of the synapse is not going to go over well in the field.
—Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 14 May 2018
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The healthy brain prunes synapses, which are the way the brain communicates, to allow other areas to mature and excel.
—National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2016
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Once tau pathology is clearly established, however, microglia may drive synapse loss and the death of neurons.
—Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
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This property, called synaptic plasticity, meant the researchers could train their acoustic synapse to perform a range of tasks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026
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The space between an axon terminal and a dendrite, where chemical signals are deposited and picked up, is called a synapse.
—Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
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Daydreaming ignites neural synapse activity in deeper regions of the brain and gives the frontal neo-cortex a break.
—Natalie Nixon, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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The researchers imaged the pallium before and after the fish learned, and analyzed the changes in synapse strength and location.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
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Your synapses will be safe again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 22 June 2017
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Your synapses will be safe once again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 June 2017
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Now Yan and his colleagues have developed an acoustic synapse containing multiple phi-bits.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026
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Perhaps a very long way off still, but a working analogue to the essential element of the brain’s networks, the synapse, appears closer at hand now.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2022
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Perhaps a very long way off still, but a working analogue to the essential element of the brain’s networks, the synapse, appears closer at hand now.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2022
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During that disturbance, some of the proteins at the synapse that help receive and interpret these signals get broken down and recycled.
—Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
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Some of them are connected by lines, indicating a synapse between those particular neurons.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
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The quick-witted rapper’s wordplay keeps listeners at the edge of their seats, eagerly awaiting the elation of that next unexpected synapse.
—Nora Lee, Billboard, 16 June 2022
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