Remember, signals travel between neurons either by electrical or chemical synapses.

请记住，信号通过电突触或化学突触在神经元之间传播。

As these new synapses are created, memories form.

当这些新突触产生时，记忆就形了。

By the age of three, a child's brain has twice as many synapses per neuron than in adults.

到三岁时，儿童大脑中每个神经元的突触数量人的两倍。

But it cannot show which synapses on them are silent.

但无法确定树突丝上的哪些突触沉默突触。

If you're thinking cerebrum. Oh, synapse, I think neuron to something.

如果你在想大脑、突触，我想神经元。

There are hundreds, possibly thousands of different kinds of connections, or synapses.

有百上千种不同类型的连接，或突触。

This information is saved by altering neurons and creating synapses and connections.

这样的讯息能因神经元的不断改变及神经键和连结的创造而被储存下来。

The human brain has 100 billion neurons and up to 150 trillion synapses.

人脑含有1000亿个神经元和多达150兆神经键。

The result was no damage to synapses, and no hearing loss in the mice.

结果突触没有损伤，小鼠也没有听力损失。

Some of your synapses are electrical — that would be like an immediate group text.

你的一些突触电的——这就像一个即时的小组聊天。

To distinguish the kind of synapse and precisely how strong each synapse is, we'll need even better resolution.

为了区分突触的种类以及每个突触的强度，我们将需要更好的分辨率。

The metaphor of the brain is tempting, but " neurons" and " synapses" deserve those scare-quotes.

大脑这个比喻听起来很诱人，但“神经元”和“突触”值得我们引用一下。

" And they will form connections, and these connections will form functional synapses that will, later on, turn into networks."

“它们会形连接，这些连接会形功能性突触，突触随后会联网络。”

They studied 2,234 synapses between cortical nerve cells of a type called pyramidal neurons, which have thousands of synapses each.

他们研究了2234个皮质神经细胞之间的突触，这种突触被称为锥体神经元，每个锥体神经元有数千个突触。

SSRIs reduce the reuptake of serotonin, which increases the amount of serotonin hanging around synapses.

SSRIs 减少了对 5-羟色胺的再摄取，从而增加了突触周围的 5-羟色胺含量。

Filopodia did not, confirming the silence of their synapses.

而树突丝的突触没有反应，证明它们的突触沉默突触。

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons, connected by at least a hundred trillion synapses.

人脑包含约860亿个神经元，它们通过至少一百万亿个突触相连。

I think it was quitting smoking that slowed me down; nicotine is a great synapse enhancer.

我想大概戒烟让我速度减慢了；尼古丁在加强神经突触活动方面功效很强。

To understand how cocaine works, let's zoom into one of the synapses of the brain.

为了弄清可卡因的作用机制，让我们来讲一讲大脑的突触！

The two neurons communicate at the synapse, where one neuron sends neurotransmitters to the next neuron.

如图这两个神经元在突触处进行信息传递，由一个神经元将神经递质传递给下一个神经元。