How to Use neuron in a Sentence

neuron

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  • Two-thirds of these neurons are in their arms and the rest are in the brain.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
  • When a neuron in the organoids fired, one of the electrodes would light up.
    — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • As a result, neurons near the site of the stroke get damaged.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The brain is a bit like a beehive, where a neuron is the queen, Macaulay says.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The world arranges itself around him; the heart beats and the neurons fire and the markets move.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
  • In this case, the antibodies sought out tau, a protein that sits in the neurons of the brain.
    — Shannon McDonagh, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • The louder the sound, the more often the neuron was spiking—and the higher its firing rate.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 11 June 2021
  • The brain acts as the command center for the body, and billions of neurons connect both sides.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 28 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Wear and Tear The spine is a 30-level tower of neurons encased in a cylinder of bone.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • This loosely models neurons in the brain, to train off of decades of past weather data.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 22 July 2024
  • This approach would be perfect if each neuron in a model had a clear, unique role.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 26 July 2024
  • Battered and scarred blood vessels that are no longer able to support neurons.
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Like the jellies, the membranes of our neurons need just the right amount of fluidity to function.
    — science.org, 3 July 2024
  • Glioma originates in glial cells that surround and support neurons in the brain, per the website.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Without these neurons, the mice couldn’t find cookies hidden in their cages.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • 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
  • And for as yet unknown reasons, along with more cortical neurons comes a longer life.
    — Suzana Herculano-Houzel, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Playing music is thought to build neuron connections in the brain and requires the brain to exercise.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 13 May 2023
  • In addition, this same basic pattern—of activating different neurons for, say, the numeral 3 as opposed to three dots—applies to other numbers studied to date.
    — Michaela Maya-Mrschtik, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The strategy likely won’t be as effective in psychiatric conditions where neurons in the brain have been damaged or lost, such as as in schizophrenia, but could be useful in conditions where brain circuits can still be accessed and modified.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024

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