🧠 Wrong brain connections 💡 Incorrect wiring

miswiring

8.4

An incorrect connection between nerve cells that changes how the brain works

noun
/ˌmɪsˈwaɪərɪŋ/

Specialized

: conexión incorrecta

Researchers found evidence of miswiring in the neural pathways of children with learning disabilities.

Examples

Is it neurologic, some miswiring that occurs mostly in the male brain?

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But his receptors get miswired, redirected, so his he can associate that pain, that level of pain.
He's simply has a miswired brain because you had rotated the eye and the connections reform according to the the retina.
The patient was diagnosed with miswiring in his brain circuitry, which affected his motor skills.
The miswiring of the electrical circuits caused the entire system to malfunction unexpectedly.

Synonyms

misconfiguration

vsmiswiring

Specialized

1 6.8

A wrong setup of a computer system or device that causes problems

is about wrong physical or neural connections that cause impaired function

How Correct

miswiring

Specialized

8.4

short circuit

Specialized

5 4.2

Surface Forms

miswiring singular

miswirings plural

Morphology

miswiring = miswire (transparent) = mis + wire + ing

Formed from the verb 'miswire' with a standard gerundive/nominal '-ing'; the prefix 'mis-' clearly indicates incorrectness, so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Miswiring comes from mis- meaning 'wrong' and wiring meaning 'wires' or 'connections', just like in mistake. Think of the brain as full of tiny wires; if some are put in the wrong place ('miswiring'), messages may go to the wrong spot and cause problems.