A New Insult

Psychology class ought to be at least good for new ways to insult people.

I'm getting ready for tomorrow's lectures and just glanced at my Gen Psyc notes. We're going to talk about synaptic gaps.

How about this for an insult? "Dude, your synaptic gaps are too wide."

The synaptic gap is the space between one brain cell's axon and another neuron's dendrites. They don't actually touch, so the neuron's electrical message has to be converted to a chemical, called a neurotransmitter, to travel between the neurons.

The wider the gap, the more the message is slowed down.

Really wide synaptic gaps = a really "slow" person.