Neuron
Neurons are highly specialized cells in both form and function. They contain the same suite of organelles as other cells, including the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and bilipid...
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Neuron
The gross anatomy of the central nervous system—the brain and spinal cord—was studied in some detail during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but not until the nineteenth ...
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Neurotransmission
NEURONS (nerve cells) communicate chemically by releasing and responding to a wide range of chemical substances, referred to in the aggregate as NEUROTRANSMITTERS. The process of neu...
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Neurons
The basic cellular unit of the nervous system is the neuron. The unique morphological and intercellular structure of the neuron is dedicated to the efficient and rapid transmission of neural s...
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Neuron
Neurons are nerve cells (neurocytes), which, together with neuroglial cells, comprise the nervous tissue making up the nervous system. The neuron is the integral element of our five senses and ...
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Neuron Theory
The existence of nerves was recognized very early in the study of the human body. Ancient Greek and Roman scholars conducted primitive studies of the structure of nerves and hypothesized...
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Kamin's Blocking Effect: Neuronal Substrates
Blocking is a classical conditioning phenomenon that has profoundly influenced thinking about associative learning. This article will discuss the ke...
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Vertebrates
The central issue in morphology of learning and memory is how such constructs are stored in the nervous system. The basic shape of neurons and synapses is illustrated in Figure 1. In the l...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have
manipulated neurons in mice to light up in a rainbow of
fluorescent hues, creating a powerful tool for mapping out the
brain's complicated wiring plan, th...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nerves that sense the icy slap
of an arctic wind or just a cool breeze take their orders from
a single protein, U.S. researchers said Monday, shedding new
light on how we exper...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A human protein generated while
the body encounters environmental stress helped delay symptoms
of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease
in mice, U.S. rese...
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Scientists have used stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually regrow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially par...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Autism and other brain disorders
may be the result of a missing protein important for building
communication networks in the brain, U.S. researchers said
Wednesday. Researchers...
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Hamburg (dpa) - An electric current applied to the scalp during
sleep may help students studying for exams, according to research by
scientists in Germany.
Sc...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Autistic children have more
gray matter in areas of the brain that control social
processing and sight-based learning than children without the
developmental disability, a smal...
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Methamphetamine appears to lessen damage to the brains of rats and gerbils that have suffered strokes, a new study by a group of University of Montana scientists shows.
"Methamphetamine is...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A mechanism in the brain may
explain why some people keep their cool and others crumble
under stress, U.S. researchers said Thursday. "We have identified the ways in which the ...
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Neuron Theory
Kamin's Blocking Effect: Neuronal Substrates
"Brainbow" paints mouse neurons in bright colors
