8 sentences with “neurons”

Aging neurons: the proven result of addiction.

The doctors' diagnosis was devastating: he was suffering from a disease affecting motor neurons.

The brain, weighing just one and a half kilograms, is made up of between 10 and 15 billion neurons.

They will connect biochips to neurons, we will be smarter, we will have more memory and we will solve everything faster.

But it is true that the brain, with its two hemispheres, its millions of neurons and that spectacular, infinitely folded cerebral cortex divided into four lobes, is the most vulnerable organ of the human being.

The Russian scientist Petukhov of the Moscow Biophysics Laboratory discovered that during cell division an electromagnetic emission was produced that could be recorded and interpreted. He then realised that this effect also occurred in neurons on a daily basis.

The brain's neurons, which are non-renewable cells, are responsible for transmitting the chemical-electrical impulses that the act of thinking involves: dendrites and axons, the nerve endings of neurons, communicate these impulses - called synapses - with a speed that is impossible to define.

The other object of study is why brain performance declines over the years; the theory that 100,000 neurons die every day has never been proven, and is beginning to be viewed with scepticism. On the other hand, there is a growing number of adherents to the postulate of deterioration due to lack of use.