The word "neuron" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a nerve cell in the body that transmits electrical impulses and is an essential component of the nervous system. Example sentence: In order to learn a new language, the neurons in his brain must form new connections.
Dr Keysers, who works at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, is one of a band of neurologists that is studying them.A mirror neuron is one that is active when the individual whose brain it is in is engaged in some action or experiencing some sensation or emotion, and also when that particular action, sensation or emotion is being observed in someone else.
Initially, this is determined by how much light (or other stimulus) the neuron receives.
Each neuron within it has tens of thousands of synaptic connections with other neurons.
However, sometimes communication is drowned out by more intense electrical signals, caused when each neuron continually excites and influences its neighbours.This collective activity, known as bursting, has been recognised by neuroscientists for more than a decade.
The outer neurons, each connected to its partners on either side, are the ones that receive input from the outside world.The neural network has two parameters that can be tweaked independently: global inhibition (in which the central neuron suppresses the firing of all the others); and local excitation (in which the firing of one neuron triggers firing in its nearest neighbours).
The memantine delivered the nitroglycerine to the sick neuron; the nitroglycerine then attached itself to eNMDA receptors and dampened their activity.
Each neuron weighs the strengths of incoming signals from its neighbours and send outputs based on those to other neighbours, which then do the same thing.
In this case, the firing of one neuron suppresses firing in the rest of the network.
Given what Mr Tanzi tells us of its "quadrillion connections supported by trillions of nerve fibres", its branching neurons, its "protoplasmic kisses" whereby a message "vaults across a sliver of space called a synaptic cleft and into the outstretched arm of another neuron", surely we should be a race of demi-gods.
