brain traffic

Definitions

1. 1

   The movement and coordination of internal signals that govern the working of the body and…

   The movement and coordination of internal signals that govern the working of the body and mind, especially neural impulses and hormones.

   • In our healthy astronaut normal brain traffic is ordinarily so heavy that it swamps completely any weak trickle via the reducing valve. Therefore he is never normally subject to "imaginations."
   • When a large amount of one amino acid is administered, the delicate balance of amino acid "brain traffic" becomes distorted.
   • Most of this brain traffic, healthy or otherwise, consists of specialized messenger cells, called neurons, which transmit electrical and chemical signals to other cells throughout the brain, muscles and other parts of the body.
2. 2

   The discussion of ideas, especially over the Internet.

   • This smile brought another problem of how to put a new guy at the top of the mast without lowering the mast. Much brain traffic was handled. Many books and journals were consulted including our great amateur Bible, QST
   • To tie knowledge management directly to the university's nervous system, Nielsen created a Web site for its employees that acts as a brain traffic controller.
3. 3

   An ability to think, with an emphasis on the limited capacity and speed a person is…

   An ability to think, with an emphasis on the limited capacity and speed a person is capable of, analogous to the limits of a road system for handling vehicular traffic.

   • The intensity of the radio noise, the vital nature of the decisions that have to be made — right now — the requirement for accelerated brain traffic; they were often more than a guy could effectively handle.
   • The Sea-Wolf bore down on me for all my brain-traffic would bear.

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