What is "dendrites"

Usage examples of "dendrites".

Thus any change in the structure of dendrites and the location of the synapses on them can change the neurophysiological relations of pre and postsynaptic cells.

Some of these synapses are on the shafts of the dendrites, others are attached to the tiny spines which stud the dendritic surface and which can be seen in Figure 10.

Changes in synaptic connectivity between one neuron and another as a result of learning along hebbian lines might involve the dendrites increasing in length, or changing in branching pattern, or the numbers of their spines might alter.

Neurons are concentrated in clusters with short interconnecting axons and dendrites between the cells of the group and defined nerve tracts leading in and out.

Nonetheless the eye of art and experience can interpret the electron micrographic chaos to pick out individual synapses, cell bodies, axons and dendrites and measure them.

Branching from the cell body are the dendrites, studded with small spines.

Running away from the cell body is the axon, which branches into an array of processes each ending in synaptic terminals at which contact is made with the dendrites or cell bodies of other neurons.

Using the light microscope, one cannot see individual synapses, but it is possible to stain individual neurons and analyse the structure of their dendrites, hence picking up possible changes.

The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses - perhaps up to ten thousand in all - arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them.

This cascade results in structural modifications to synapses and dendrites and is reflected in alterations in the electrical properties of the cells, as shown by changes in their spontaneous, rhythmic, electrical activity in the hours after training.

What Penrose hypothesizes is that the standard model of our brains of dendrites and synapse links cannot possibly explain sentience simply because there are not even vaguely enough of these to perform the complexities of what true sentience would require.

When the Veritas bacteria enter the human nervous system, they increase the efficiency of the dendrites to transport chemical messages across the synapses in the brain.