Chapter 11 Fundamentals of Nervous System
... A brief reversal of membrane potential with a total amplitude of 100 mV ...
... A brief reversal of membrane potential with a total amplitude of 100 mV ...
The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up
... primate or cetacean (Marino, 1998). The position of the human species as an outlier in the body × brain comparison is made clear if one considers that although gorillas and orangutans overlap or exceed humans in body size, their brains amount to only about one-third of the size of the human brain. T ...
... primate or cetacean (Marino, 1998). The position of the human species as an outlier in the body × brain comparison is made clear if one considers that although gorillas and orangutans overlap or exceed humans in body size, their brains amount to only about one-third of the size of the human brain. T ...
Commentary on slides for lecture 15
... muscle itself called the muscle spindle. The muscle spindle is an encapsulated structure that contains very fine muscle fibers, the intrafusal fibers, and the endings of neurons located in the dorsal root ganglia, the Ia afferent fibers. The intrafusal fibers are arranged in parallel with the main ...
... muscle itself called the muscle spindle. The muscle spindle is an encapsulated structure that contains very fine muscle fibers, the intrafusal fibers, and the endings of neurons located in the dorsal root ganglia, the Ia afferent fibers. The intrafusal fibers are arranged in parallel with the main ...
The Neuromodulatory Basis of Emotion
... in rats. In addition, simultaneous injection of lnorepinephrine has been shown to reverse this effect. Taken together, and completed by other studies showing the presence of such receptors and the projection of noradrenergic systems onto the amygdala, these results strongly suggest that longterm mem ...
... in rats. In addition, simultaneous injection of lnorepinephrine has been shown to reverse this effect. Taken together, and completed by other studies showing the presence of such receptors and the projection of noradrenergic systems onto the amygdala, these results strongly suggest that longterm mem ...
Design Features in Vertebrate Sensory Systems
... contain a topologically organized repre- of the MLD lacks an orderly representasentation of the gustatory receptor sheet tion of auditory frequency. It is instead in which the representation of the head "space mapped" in that there is an orderly and barbels is disproportionately large representation ...
... contain a topologically organized repre- of the MLD lacks an orderly representasentation of the gustatory receptor sheet tion of auditory frequency. It is instead in which the representation of the head "space mapped" in that there is an orderly and barbels is disproportionately large representation ...
The role of the mirror neuron system in action understanding and
... seen, some mirror neurons still fired. The monkeys saw beforehand if there was an object present or not. Mirror neurons did not fire when the object was not present. This shows that the motor representation of a meaningful action performed by another can be generated internally in the premotor corte ...
... seen, some mirror neurons still fired. The monkeys saw beforehand if there was an object present or not. Mirror neurons did not fire when the object was not present. This shows that the motor representation of a meaningful action performed by another can be generated internally in the premotor corte ...
Text - ETH E
... Critic architecture to biological structures suggests that the Critic may correspond to pathways from limbic cortex via limbic striatum to dopamine neurons, whereas the Actor may correspond to pathways from neocortex via sensorimotor striatum to basal ganglia output nuclei. The Actor –Critic model w ...
... Critic architecture to biological structures suggests that the Critic may correspond to pathways from limbic cortex via limbic striatum to dopamine neurons, whereas the Actor may correspond to pathways from neocortex via sensorimotor striatum to basal ganglia output nuclei. The Actor –Critic model w ...
Mechanisms of excitability in the central and peripheral nervous
... studied excitability in two systems of the nervous system, the hippocampus which is responsible for memory and spatial navigation, and the peripheral C–fiber which is responsible for sensing and conducting sensory information to the spinal cord. Within the work, I have studied the role of excitabili ...
... studied excitability in two systems of the nervous system, the hippocampus which is responsible for memory and spatial navigation, and the peripheral C–fiber which is responsible for sensing and conducting sensory information to the spinal cord. Within the work, I have studied the role of excitabili ...
Are Action-based Lies easier to detect than Speech
... type of lie, faking, activated the right superior frontal gyrus, the left ...
... type of lie, faking, activated the right superior frontal gyrus, the left ...
chapter ppt. - Old Saybrook Public Schools
... • positively charged neuron returning to the resting state of being negatively charged. The “message” is sent. ...
... • positively charged neuron returning to the resting state of being negatively charged. The “message” is sent. ...
Chapter 07: The Structure of the Nervous System
... Gross Organization of the Mammalian Nervous System The Peripheral Nervous System Nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord Somatic PNS: Innervates skin, joints, muscles Visceral PNS: Innervates internal organs, blood vessels, glands Dorsal root ganglia: Clusters of neuronal cell bodies ou ...
... Gross Organization of the Mammalian Nervous System The Peripheral Nervous System Nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord Somatic PNS: Innervates skin, joints, muscles Visceral PNS: Innervates internal organs, blood vessels, glands Dorsal root ganglia: Clusters of neuronal cell bodies ou ...
Circuit Architecture of VTA Dopamine Neurons Revealed by
... To restrict our analysis specifically to VTA-DA and VTA-GABA neurons, we used DAT-Cre mice, in which Cre mimics the expression pattern of the plasma membrane dopamine transporter (Bäckman et al., 2006; Lammel et al., 2015), and GAD2Cre mice, in which Cre mimics the expression of glutamic acid decar ...
... To restrict our analysis specifically to VTA-DA and VTA-GABA neurons, we used DAT-Cre mice, in which Cre mimics the expression pattern of the plasma membrane dopamine transporter (Bäckman et al., 2006; Lammel et al., 2015), and GAD2Cre mice, in which Cre mimics the expression of glutamic acid decar ...
Vocal communication in frogs
... inflation of a visually obvious vocal sac. Recent evidence indicates that a pulsating sac increases the attractiveness of advertisement calls in túngaras [7]. Females were tested with whine–chucks broadcast from speakers placed above LCD monitors displaying a video of a túngara male (vocal sac i ...
... inflation of a visually obvious vocal sac. Recent evidence indicates that a pulsating sac increases the attractiveness of advertisement calls in túngaras [7]. Females were tested with whine–chucks broadcast from speakers placed above LCD monitors displaying a video of a túngara male (vocal sac i ...
Prevalent Presence of Periodic Actin-spectrin-based
... patterns in dendrites; concordantly, quantitative autocorrelation analyses showed substantially lower average autocorrelation amplitudes in dendrites (Fig. 2J, K). Together, our data suggest that the MPS structure is prevalent in morphologically and functionally diverse excitatory and inhibitory neu ...
... patterns in dendrites; concordantly, quantitative autocorrelation analyses showed substantially lower average autocorrelation amplitudes in dendrites (Fig. 2J, K). Together, our data suggest that the MPS structure is prevalent in morphologically and functionally diverse excitatory and inhibitory neu ...
Radial Glial Cell–Neuron Interaction Directs Axon Formation at the
... CO2 incubator. After 1 d in vitro, lattice cul- every 10 min (96.2% of Nestin-positive cell-interacting neurons exhibited axon formation at the opposite side of the soma from the tures were induced with 100 g/ml 5 kDa dex- contacting neurite, n ⫽ 26 Nestin-positive cell-interacting neurons in 22 mo ...
... CO2 incubator. After 1 d in vitro, lattice cul- every 10 min (96.2% of Nestin-positive cell-interacting neurons exhibited axon formation at the opposite side of the soma from the tures were induced with 100 g/ml 5 kDa dex- contacting neurite, n ⫽ 26 Nestin-positive cell-interacting neurons in 22 mo ...
NEOCORTEX
... in the cortical stmctures, particularly the cerebellum and neocortex. Within the neoconex itself, the expansion is uneven. In comparison with nonhuman primates of equivalent body weight, the association and premotor areas have expanded relative to the sensory areas. When added together, the neocorte ...
... in the cortical stmctures, particularly the cerebellum and neocortex. Within the neoconex itself, the expansion is uneven. In comparison with nonhuman primates of equivalent body weight, the association and premotor areas have expanded relative to the sensory areas. When added together, the neocorte ...
ppt - Brain Dynamics Laboratory
... • Such divergence is seen in auditory inner hair cells, which provide a divergent input to 10–30 ganglion cells through a specialized 'ribbon synapse'. ...
... • Such divergence is seen in auditory inner hair cells, which provide a divergent input to 10–30 ganglion cells through a specialized 'ribbon synapse'. ...
Mapping the Brain
... (as in the STG), as well as gap junctions that may form electrical synapses (~10% of all synapses). Most neurons are separated from each other by no more than two or three synaptic connections. The C. elegans map was immediately used to define neurons required for the touch-avoidance response, which ...
... (as in the STG), as well as gap junctions that may form electrical synapses (~10% of all synapses). Most neurons are separated from each other by no more than two or three synaptic connections. The C. elegans map was immediately used to define neurons required for the touch-avoidance response, which ...
Impaired Reelin-Dab1 Signaling Contributes to
... Quantification of neuronal positioning: Cortical areas from the pia to the lower end of intermediate zone were divided into 10 equal-sized bins and Cux1 immunopositive and GFP expressing cells in each bin were counted. The percentage of immune-positive or GFP expressing cells in each bin was then c ...
... Quantification of neuronal positioning: Cortical areas from the pia to the lower end of intermediate zone were divided into 10 equal-sized bins and Cux1 immunopositive and GFP expressing cells in each bin were counted. The percentage of immune-positive or GFP expressing cells in each bin was then c ...
see p. A4b - Viktor`s Notes for the Neurosurgery Resident
... another through synapse; released by presynaptic cell (upon excitation), crosses synapse to stimulate or inhibit* postsynaptic cell by binding to receptor. *final result (hyperpolarization or depolarization) is dependent on both transmitter and its receptor. to qualify as neurotransmitter, five cl ...
... another through synapse; released by presynaptic cell (upon excitation), crosses synapse to stimulate or inhibit* postsynaptic cell by binding to receptor. *final result (hyperpolarization or depolarization) is dependent on both transmitter and its receptor. to qualify as neurotransmitter, five cl ...
Chapter Two: The Musical Brain
... vicinity of the cell body. In contrast, axons can extend to distant targets, more than a meter away in some instances. Dendrites are rarely more than about a millimeter long and often much shorter. Neurons communicate through specialized junctions called synapses. Axons typically make synapses with ...
... vicinity of the cell body. In contrast, axons can extend to distant targets, more than a meter away in some instances. Dendrites are rarely more than about a millimeter long and often much shorter. Neurons communicate through specialized junctions called synapses. Axons typically make synapses with ...
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox in the Brain
... measurement which involved a shorter distance between the subjects. (Note that the present experiment thus serves as a replication of the previous experiment.) As is well known, local signals are always attenuated, and the absence of attenuation is a sure signature of nonlocality. Encouraged by Bell ...
... measurement which involved a shorter distance between the subjects. (Note that the present experiment thus serves as a replication of the previous experiment.) As is well known, local signals are always attenuated, and the absence of attenuation is a sure signature of nonlocality. Encouraged by Bell ...