Assertion: brain's neuron | /r/CapableOf | become activated
Facets:
value: transiently
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: What Ungless and co. observed was that those neurons in the dorsal VTA, those that were unresponsive or were inhibited by the electric shock, became transiently activated when the shock was turned off.
text: When a neuron becomes activated, it passes an electrical signal from the cell body down the axon to its end (known as the axon terminal), where chemical messengers called neurotransmitters are stored.