How to Use synapse in a Sentence

synapse

noun

• The space between the layers was said to represent the synapse.
  — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2013
• In one of these moods, conscious thought seems to be turned off in favor of all synapses firing at the same time.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 19 Feb. 2017
• The sound of church bells and the clatter of feet on cobblestones, even the foreign purr of a diesel engine, calm your synapses.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2017
• At least until researchers find a way to hack into the network of synapses that comprise the brain.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• Over time, even their brain cells, synapses, blood flow and nervous systems start to be impaired.
  — Ramin Skibba, Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2017
• But what about the existence of the synapse; isn’t that crucial to signaling in a neural network?
  — Suzanne Simard, Wired, 7 May 2021
• Synapses—the cell-to-cell links that serve as the bits of the brain’s operating system—play an important role too.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 May 2017
• In fact, as introduced above, what happens at the synapse is not electrical at all.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• The synapse is the space that separates a dendrite or axon from another cell.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• Your synapses will be safe once again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 June 2017
• Your synapses will be safe again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• The researchers imaged the pallium before and after the fish learned, and analyzed the changes in synapse strength and location.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
• The healthy brain prunes synapses, which are the way the brain communicates, to allow other areas to mature and excel.
  — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2016
• Every synapse of my brain is so utterly overwhelmed, there is no capacity left to think about the world out there.
  — Christoph Niemann, New York Times, 20 May 2020
• Deep into the synapse The researchers knew that the vagus nerve is one way that the gut and the brain communicate and that the adaptive immune system is another.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2019
• Firing may trigger connected neurons to fire, too, depending on the weight of the synapse between them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 July 2013
• Dendritic spines form half of the synapse and are essential to connecting neurons.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2019
• Perhaps a very long way off still, but a working analogue to the essential element of the brain’s networks, the synapse, appears closer at hand now.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2022
• Glanzman knows his unceremonial demotion of the synapse is not going to go over well in the field.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 14 May 2018
• Our brain cells communicate by sending signals to one another across a small gap called a synapse.
  — Dallas News, 14 July 2022
• Residents have voiced displeasure with the synapse-shattering techno music that pounds out of Heart’s rooftop and nearby clubs E11even and Club Space.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
• Daydreaming ignites neural synapse activity in deeper regions of the brain and gives the frontal neo-cortex a break.
  — Natalie Nixon, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The space between an axon terminal and a dendrite, where chemical signals are deposited and picked up, is called a synapse.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• When the synapsin is phosphorylated, the droplet rapidly dissipates and the vesicles are freed to spill the neurotransmitters into the synapse.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2018
• During that disturbance, some of the proteins at the synapse that help receive and interpret these signals get broken down and recycled.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
• Once tau pathology is clearly established, however, microglia may drive synapse loss and the death of neurons.
  — Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• The quick-witted rapper’s wordplay keeps listeners at the edge of their seats, eagerly awaiting the elation of that next unexpected synapse.
  — Nora Lee, Billboard, 16 June 2022
• Their near-coincident firings cause the synapse, or connection, between them to strengthen, and this coupling of the place cells ingrains the rat’s trajectory into the brain.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 July 2021
• The earlier connectome, published in 1986, examined each synapse—the junction between nerve cells.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 3 July 2019
• Some pharmaceutical companies are also working on a pill that could repair the synapses that get the electrical signal to your brain.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024