As these new synapses are created, memories form.

些新突触产生时，记忆就形成了。

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

有成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.

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。

Filopodia did not, confirming the silence of their synapses.

而树突丝的突触没有反应，证明它们的突触是沉默突触。

Silent synapses are, however, useless unless they can be switched on at the appropriate moment.

然而，如果不能在适的时候被激活，沉默突触就是无的。

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

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

The process of pairing the homologous chromosomes is called synapsis.

同源染色体配对的过程称为联会。

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机制，让我们来讲讲大脑的突触！

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 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，它们通过至万亿个突触相连。

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

大脑个比喻听起来很诱人，但是“神经元”和“突触”值得我们引下。

This seems like a good system, so why aren't all of our synapses electrical?

看起来是个不错的系统，那么为什么不是所有的突触都是电的呢？

Gray matter is the type of tissue that contains most of the brain's cell bodies and synapses.

灰质是包含大部分大脑细胞体和突触的种组织。

The synapses add existing footage from the long-term memory to make it a creative and memorable experience.

些突触添加了长期记忆中已有的片段，使之成为种创造性的、令人难忘的体验。

Neurons and synapses are the cells and electric forces that carry messages to and from the brain.

神经元和神经键就是从大脑传送和接收信息的细胞和电力。

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是成年人的两倍。

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。

In conventional backprop, error signals lead to adjustments in the synapses, which in turn cause changes in neuronal activity.

在传统的反向传播中，误差信号会导致突触的调整，进而导致神经元活动的变化。

The same pairing, applied to mature synapses, did nothing.

而在成熟突触上进行的相同实验没有起到任何作。

This pairing of events caused silent synapses to start, within minutes, displaying receptor molecules characteristic of active synapses.

种激活能够让沉默突触在几分钟内开始显示活跃突触特有的受体分子。