Sentence examples for groups of nerve cells from inspiring English sources

Researchers in the United States have developed a new method for controlling the brain circuits associated with complex animal behaviours, using genetic engineering to create a magnetised protein that activates specific groups of nerve cells from a distance.

It is thought that Sydenham chorea is caused by a malfunctioning of the basal ganglia, groups of nerve cells in the brain.

Its secretory products, vasopressin and oxytocin, are produced and packaged into neurosecretory granules in specific groups of nerve cells in the hypothalamus (the supraoptic nuclei and the paraventricular nuclei).

Since the strength of a memory seems to depend on the strength of connections between groups of nerve cells, the infuriating fallibility of memory may be a necessary consequence of retaining the ability to overwrite what you know when you discover that it is no longer correct.

How these widely spaced neuronal responses are "bound" together into the coherent perception of a rolling apple is, as yet, unknown.Some neuroscientists, notably Wolf Singer, at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt, think the brain achieves perceptual binding by combining the activities of disparate groups of nerve cells into one synchronised, wavelike processing unit.

To do this, they used specially bred flies with genes that could be turned off in groups of nerve cells at high temperature.

They consist of a series of nuclei (groups of nerve cell bodies in the central nervous system similar to a peripheral ganglion) connected by fibre tracts made up of their axons (processes that convey signals away from the cell bodies).

A tiny group of nerve cells deep in the brain could control risk-taking behaviour, according to new research.

Later in evolution, dedicated signalling lines (nerves) appear, connecting the receptor cells with a central group of nerve cells – neurons – that are the forerunners to our own brains.

Almost all pelagic ciliated eumetazoan (neuralian) larvae have a group of nerve cells with long cilia at the apical pole.

These are an important group of nerve cells that control signals in the peripheral nervous system and in the brain and spinal cord.