How to Use synaptic in a Sentence

synaptic

adjective

• The pileups appear to promote amyloid buildup as well as synaptic loss.
  — Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ, 22 May 2022
• Anxiety, joy, and lovelorn regrets slipping away, its synaptic tangles pruned branch by branch.
  — Django Gold, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022
• The results revealed subjects who napped had weaker synaptic connections in their brains than those who stayed awake.
  — Hunter Boyce, AJC.com, 11 Feb. 2026
• But little more than a day later, the synaptic connections in his brain had began to function enough that his body moved again.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• The sensory data that the chip receives, rather than marching along single file, fan out through its synaptic networks.
  — Kelly Clancy, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017
• Our brains contain billions of neurons linked through trillions of synaptic connections.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2015
• Not completely away, but in a synaptic cabinet beneath my amygdala.
  — Abby Ellin, Marie Claire, 8 Jan. 2019
• Yet, the way in which the brain decides what synaptic connections to prune is another mystery to explore, Cirelli said.
  — Christopher Wanjek, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2017
• Learning happens when more voltage spikes strengthen the synaptic connection.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2018
• This property, called synaptic plasticity, meant the researchers could train their acoustic synapse to perform a range of tasks.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026
• And none of these experimenters has done so with the intent of reversing the synaptic changes brought on by the use of cocaine or other drugs of addiction.
  — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2015
• At the same time, delta waves seem to degrade memories, perhaps by weakening brain connections in some form of synaptic downscaling.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2019
• Serotonin enhances the synaptic responsiveness that allows a skier to perceive, change direction, and carve a quick turn around a gate.
  — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
• For example, in the tiny and molecularly crowded space of the synaptic cleft - the connection point between two neurons.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• This process is mainly thought to result from synaptic plasticity, or changes to the trillions of connections between neurons.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
• Contrary to expectation, the synaptic strengths in the pallium remained about the same regardless of whether the fish learned anything.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
• Newborn dentate gyrus neurons might be expected to have enhanced synaptic plasticity for over a year in primates and even longer in humans.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2019
• A day when the Stanley Cup years finally ride the synaptic road back to long-term memory and the brain finally bumps the past for the present.
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
• Batista suggests that the changes in the synaptic connections between neurons that would be required for realignment may be too hard to accomplish quickly.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2018
• Backpropagation is a method for updating the synaptic weights to descend that gradient.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• Think of this synaptic plasticity as the mechanism by which the strength of information flow in these tiny gaps among brain cells is manipulated.
  — Husseini Manji, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2021
• But the question still remains of how the arrival time of neural impulses at each synaptic relay point in complex neural networks is established.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• Maybe there’s a way to hack the algorithm constructively, to create virtual synaptic connections that don’t quite exist yet.
  — Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
• Over the course of a year, the implant consistently recorded both sharp neuron spikes and broader synaptic activity while the mice remained healthy and active.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
• Or that those are all hallucinatory images coming from the last synaptic firings of a past-his-prime flyboy getting smeared across the horizon alongside the pieces of his jet?
  — Vulture, 29 May 2022
• But there is something wonderful in the synaptic nimbleness with which people nowadays can plug in all these holes and create a pretty accurate whole other person.
  — Allie Briggs, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• On a steamy afternoon in August, the grounds buzzed with families experiencing a synaptic sugar rush.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Those influences — waves — travel around the brain 5,000 times faster than the slower signaling of synaptic spikes, and they’re being sent out all the time.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• That is, the more correlated the activity of adjacent neurons, the stronger the synaptic connections between them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• This coating, made of a substance called myelin, protects our nerves and speeds up those vital electrical pulses moving from one neuron to the next, kissing across synaptic gaps in a brisk burst of chemicals.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 June 2018