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- noun Plural form of
neurone .
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Examples
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Around this bundle of neurones, that is around the nerve, is still another wrapping, silvery-white, called the neurilemma.
The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts 1901
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From a scrap of skin taken from a patient, they can make neurones genetically identical to those in that person's brain.
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A patient's neurones can tell us a great deal about the psychological conditions that affect them, but you cannot stick a needle in someone's brain and take out its cells," said Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, the centre's director."
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MND is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the upper and lower motor neurones leading to weakness and the deterioration of muscles, causing increasing loss of mobility in the limbs and difficulties with speech, swallowing and breathing.
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George Ricaurte, a scientist working for the American Government investigated the effect of MDMA on dopaminergic neurones in the brains of monkeys.
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At the end of the day, if love truly exists, like these weird physical attractions, it must have more to do with a chemical imbalance in the brain, electricity setting alight some neurones, and perhaps even magnetic fields surrounding us.
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Lead researcher Dr Vasanta Subramanian said: We have found that mutated versions of this molecule are toxic to motor neurones and affect their ability to put out extensions called the axons.
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"If we can block the function of the faulty angiogenin in patients in which it is present, this may help to maintain healthy neurones and prevent further progression of the disease."
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Yet even if dopamine neurones are involved in paranoia, it stands to reason that "the nervous system of an animal living the life of repeated victimization will become highly attuned to the detection of further threatening events."
Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It 2009
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Is it all chemical reactions, magnetic fields, electricity in the neurones?
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