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Exercise almost completely protected against the loss of these neurons.

Michael Zigmond
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[Learning strengthens some connections between neurons, known as synapses, and even forms new synapses. These synapses demand a lot of extra energy, though.] That means that at the end of the day, you have a brain that costs you more energy, ... That's where sleep would kick in.

Giulio Tononi
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As you begin to age and lose neurons, the ventricles get bigger.

Lewis Kuller
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Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network -- a brain.

Thomas Demarse
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[T]he number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. . .

Jeremy Bernstein
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She's got a deletion of a certain strand of DNA that produces survival motor neurons. Because she doesn't have that, she basically loses the connection from her nerves to her muscles and the muscles (then) atrophy.

Clint Christopher
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Our research suggests that the pre-Boetzinger complex contains a fixed number of neurons that we lose as we age.

Jack Feldman
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Children and seniors can both benefit from brainteasers because research has shown that when looking at the brain through an MRI or a CAT scan, brainteasers actually cause the neurons to fire faster, therefore increasing brain activity.

Dale Robinson
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In regular cells, like in bone and blood, the cells divide. But brain cells do not normally divide. The great majority will not divide. The neurons you're born with are pretty much what you have at end of life.

Danilo Tagle
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