As these new synapses are created, memories form.

当这些新突触产生时，记忆就形成了。

The process of pairing the homologous chromosomes is called synapsis.

同源染色体配对的过程称为联会。

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。

But it cannot show which synapses on them are silent.

但无法确定树突丝上的哪些突触是默突触。

Filopodia did not, confirming the silence of their synapses.

而树突丝的突触没有反应，证明它们的突触是默突触。

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

有成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.

结果是突触没有损伤，小鼠也没有损失。

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

你的一些突触是电的——这就像一个即时的小组聊天。

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。

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

大脑这个比喻起来很诱人，但是“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 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。

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。

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

这些突触添加了长期记忆中已有的片段，使之成为一种创造性的、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。

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

然而，如果不能在适当的时候被激，默突触就是无用的。

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

根据目前的估计，人类大脑中有600万亿个突触。