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Kurzweil offers vague gestures toward an unusual kind of neuron called spindle cells, which he suggests are involved in "handling emotion and moral judgment," but offers no references and very little direct evidence.

The researchers decided to focus on a type of neuron called a T4 cell, which signals one of four directions — up, down, backward or forward — depending on where in the visual lobe the cell's nerve endings are located.

At a chemical synapse each ending, or terminal, of a nerve fibre (presynaptic fibre) swells to form a knoblike structure that is separated from the fibre of an adjacent neuron, called a postsynaptic fibre, by a microscopic space called the synaptic cleft.

The transfer function is a relationship between the internal activation level of the neuron (called activation function) and the outputs.

The genes, dubbed the zig genes, are expressed in a neuron called PVT in the larval worm's ventral nerve cord.

A new type of neuron called auto-tuning neuron with three adjustable parameters will be introduced to construct a single neural controller.

Muscles are activated by signals from neurons called motoneurons, which are themselves activated by signals from so-called premotor neurons.

Then the researchers induced the birth of new neurons, called neurogenesis, by giving one cohort access to a running wheel.

Physical pain signals are transmitted from the body to the brain by specialised sensory neurons called nociceptors.

Spidery cells that help maintain neurons — called astroglia and microglia — are enlarged from chronic activation.

These 12 neurons, which were receiving news of electric shocks and generating dopamine, converge on another group of neurons called Kenyon cells to which they seem to be passing on news of the shock, via dopamine.