{"id":188,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"synapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Synapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">SYNAPSES<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The term synapse designates the point where the axon of one neuron connects to a dendrite of another. This word comes from the Greek syn (together) and haptein (join). Neurons can be connected in two very different ways:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">by an electrical synapse, in which the two cells touch and are connected by tiny holes, which lets the static electric impulse pass from one neuron to the other;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">by a chemical synapse, where the two cells do not touch and the nerve impulse needs particular molecules to bridge the gap between them.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The vast majority of the&nbsp;&asymp;150 trillion synapses are chemical. Although slower than electrical ones&nbsp;they are more flexible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Variations in the amount of neurotransmitters released, the receptors available, or&nbsp;affinity between the two make the synapses undergo changes in size and enable us to learn. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Synaptic transmission, dozens of times per second at the ends of &asymp;100 billion neurons, is&nbsp;the omnipresent mechanism that is the source of the brain&rsquo;s great plasticity.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=189\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Ligand.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 243px; height: 254px;\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYNAPSES The term synapse designates the point where the axon of one neuron connects to a dendrite of another. This word comes from the Greek syn (together) and haptein (join). Neurons can be connected in two very different ways: by an electrical synapse, in which the two cells touch and are connected by tiny holes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}