Synonyms for neurons
neu·rons

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1. List of paraphrases for "neurons":

   neurones, brains

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1. Ken Catania:

   So it really is a remote control in a sense of the eels' neurons activating through the electric generating organs the neurons in the prey. And so they are remotely activating their preys' muscles and essentially taking over their peripheral nervous system.

2. Neal Kassell:

   In a simplistic sense, you can imagine that there’s a bunch of abnormal neurons in this one target that are firing away uncontrollably, causing the tremor, the shaking.

3. Dileep Yavagal:

   Previously it was thought that they transform into neurons and brain tissue, but especially with bone marrow cells that does not seem to be the case, the main effect seems to be through the supportive functions or nursing functions.

4. Stephen Larson:

   We definitely have further to go, but I think what captures people's imagination is how much information we have managed to put together, we know we have the correct number of neurons, we have them connected together in roughly the same way that the animal has, and they're organized in the same way in that there are some neurons that give out information and other neurons that receive information.

5. Joe Robinson:

   It’s like when you’re hanging out with somebody and that person starts yawning — within a couple seconds you’re doing the same thing, mirror neurons are there because they’re a bonding tool. They’re supposed to help bring us together. But in the case of stress, well, they cause problems.