Serotonin which contributes to feeling of well-being and happiness, works by moving from neuron to neuron in your brain through a gap called the synapse.

5 -羟色胺有助于产生幸福愉快的感觉，它通过一个叫做突触的间隙神经元之间传递。

Neuroscientist proved that synapses, the million billion connections in your brain that make you remember and understand stuff, grow mainly at night when you are asleep.

科家证实，神经突触，也就是袋里帮助你记忆和解的上百亿个神精元，主要夜晚、睡觉的时候生成。

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

如果你想、突触，我想是神经元。

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。

Current estimates suggest there are 600 trillion synapses in a human brain.

根据目前的估计，人类中有600亿个突触。

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。

After serotonin is pumped into the synapse, it is either taken up into the pre-synaptic neuron for later use or it is metabolized by an enzyme into 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA).

5-羟色胺被“泵”入神经突触后，要么被带到前突触神经元备用，要么被某种酶代谢成 5-羟基吲哚乙酸（5-HIAA）。

Eventually, this leads to the formation of new synapses, which are essentially connections between neurons – though the neurons don't actually touch.

最终，这就导致了新突触的形成，这些突触本质上是神经元之间的连接——尽管神经元实际上并不相互接触。

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

请记住，信号通过电突触或化突触神经元之间传播。

But because the brain has billions of neurons, of which millions could be involved in any single task, scientists have puzzled over how it knows which synapses to tweak and by how much.

但由于有数十亿个神经元，其中数百个可能参与任何一项任务，科家们一直思考如何知道要调整哪些突触以及调整到何种程度。

And inside of that human, you would find a brain made of millions of cells in which you would find trillions of synapses firing away.

人类的体内，你会发现他的由数百个细胞组成，这些细胞中，你会发现数亿个突触不停地放电。

Your brain contains around 100 billion neurons that communicate with each other across gaps called synapses using proteins and chemicals called neurotransmitters.

你的包含约1000亿个神经元，它们通过叫做突触的间隙相互交流，使用的是叫做神经递质的蛋白质和化物质。

For the writer, honestly, it helps you build up a kind of creative reflex, so that those synapses fire off, and the images come.

说实话，对作家来说，这样的惯性可以打造富有创造性的肌肉，让神经突触保持兴奋，然后画面自然就来了。

And sixth, these modular genes seem to be involved in the crucial job of linking nerve cells together through junctions called synapses.

这些单位基因组似乎担子不轻，它们要经过各个枢纽将神经细胞连接到一起，这些枢纽名叫突触。

The neurotransmitters travel across the synapse and bind to receptors on the postsynaptic neuron, where they give the cell a message.

神经递质经过突触间隙与突触后神经元的受体结合，给突触后神经元提供信息。

Although the exact mechanism is unknown, repeated firing of neurons causes changes in the synapse, which interferes with normal impulse conduction.

虽然确切的机制尚不清楚，神经元的反复放电会引起突触的变化，从而干扰正常的脉冲传导。

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

“它们会形成连接，这些连接会形成功能性突触，突触随后会联成网络。”

They also identified classes of cells in the fly's brain and examined the chemical connections between neurons known as synapses.

他们还确定了果蝇中的细胞类别，并检查了神经元之间被称为突触的化连接。

They discovered that patients with depression had a lower density of synapses than healthy people of the same age.

他们发现，抑郁症患者的突触密度低于同龄的健康人群。

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

到三岁时，儿童中每个神经元的突触数量是成年人的两倍。