brain cell

If you’re thinking “oh well, these brain cells just respond to prediction,” the authors have answers here too.

When we think, each of our brain cells fires signals to as many as 1,000 neighboring neurons up to 200 times per second.

In more recent years, the composition of proteins, hormones, brain cells, and genes has been reduced to individual atoms, without the need to invoke nonmaterial substances.

Every taste is a constellation of brain cells, winking on in different patterns as an animal experiences a flavor, this new study shows.

These are hardly rare in biology—most of the chemical receptors in our brain cells, for example, rely on these structures.

His wife's words and the sigh that went with them were repeated in a remote brain cell.

For months he was pursued by morbid fears of what a jostled brain-cell or a diseased body might do to one.

By this time the nerve or brain cell whereby one experiences the sensation of amazement was numb.

A bone-cell cannot receive an impression, nor originate an idea, any more than a brain-cell can secrete bile.

This, which is a mental effect of some disordered brain cell, is suggested instinctively by certain of Blake's pictures.