ganglion

The researchers then focused on the trigeminal ganglion, which contains the cell bodies of facial sensory neurons.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

The electrical nerve impulses are finally transmitted to ganglion cells in the retina and then via the optic nerve to the visual cortex in the brain.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023

However, the stimulation of the light-sensitive ganglion cells was the same in all three conditions.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023

It found people with Parkinson's had a thinner ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer and inner nuclear layer in the eye.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2023

You might begin at the local beach, which functions as a sort of ganglion.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The basal ganglia receive information from the cerebral cortex, which helps control thinking, social behavior, and the ability to decide which sensory information deserves attention.

From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026

The cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia are parts of the brain critical for many cognitive processes, including motor activity and behaviors to gain rewards such as food and water.

From Science Daily ● May 31, 2024

The basal ganglia receives signals from the motor cortex as skaters leap and twirl in the air.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

Ullman says the findings underscore the potential utility of drugs that are known to improve movement impairments due to basal ganglia dysfunction, such as those that act on dopamine receptors.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2024

“The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

They have a brain that’s wrapped around their esophagus, ganglions on every one of their little suckers.

From Slate ● May 31, 2017

Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course," muttered the shaken aviator, "I'd forgotten a reptile's ganglions will keep on beating for hours, like that shark we killed off Paumotu.

From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Harry Bates

My ganglions were still vibrating as I ran the car into the stables of Brinkley Court, and it was a much shaken Bertram who tottered up to his room to change into something loose.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse