Citations:underfiring

English citations of underfiring

1. (neurology) Of a neuron: the state of firing less frequently than normal.
   • 2020, Donna Jackson Nakazawa, “Brain Hacking”, in The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell that Changed the Course of Medicine, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 115:

     When neurons start to flail, they begin to overfire or underfire. In brain scans, this overfiring or underfiring is captured by quantifying a patient's brain waves, such as alpha, beta, theta, and delta waves, which are moving either too quickly or too slowly.