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If we look, for example, at a child's rate of synaptic formation over the first 11 months and the following years, we can see that the speed at which each new connection for vision and hearing is created peaks at around 3 to 4 months of age.
If we look, for example, at a child's rate of synaptic formation over the first 11 months and the following years, we can see that the speed at which each new connection for vision and hearing is created peaks at around three to four months of age.
And this process is called synaptic plasticity.
and this process is called synaptic plasticity.
You're increasing synaptic connections.
You're increasing synaptic connections.
Glutamate is a biochemical used in your brain to pass signals from one neuron to another through the synaptic cleft.
Glutamate is a biochemical used in your brain to pass signals from one neuron to another through the synaptic cleft.
and pulses in order to activate and increase synaptic currents within this brain region.
The magnet is then targeted to a region like, for example, the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and pulses in order to activate and increase synaptic currents within this brain region.
And so we have to unlearn before we relearn, we have to break the habit of the old self before we reinvent the new self, we have to prune synaptic connections and sprout new connections.
We have to prune synaptic connections and sprout new connections.
However, it's fundamentally a process of neural adaptation, of cultivating new synaptic connections.
However, it's fundamentally a process of neural adaptation, of cultivating new synaptic connections.
the movements of fingers in the brain change a lot, increasing reinforcement of the synaptic
Some area that controls the movements of fingers in the brain changes a lot, increases and reinforcements of the synaptic connections.
You actually start losing connections that you don't use enough in a process called synaptic pruning, which has led to a theory that this is kind of a use-it-or-lose-it phase.
You actually start losing connections that you don't use enough, in a process called synaptic pruning -
When that action potential races down the length of its axon to the terminal, the message hits the synapse that then flings it over that synaptic gap to another neuron that's in your spinal cord.
The electrical ones send an electrical impulse, while the chemical ones the ones I'm talking about right now first convert that signal from electrical to chemical by activating neurotransmitters to bridge the synaptic gap, before the receiving neuron converts that chemical signal back into an electrical one.