At Rest
Electric!
The Neuron
General Neuroscience
100

-5omV to -85mV

What is the resting membrane potential of the neuron?

100

A rapid depolarization of the resting membrane potential; salty.

What are Na+ ions?

100

Connections made; number in the trillions

What is the synapse?

100

86 to 150 billion

How many neurons are in the brain?

200

Highly concentrated on the inside.

What is K+?

200

An increase in the membrane potential.

What is a hyperpolarization?

200

Integrates information

What are the dendrites?

200

The nucleus accumbens; you better pay attention.

What signals salience?
300

Sets up a concentration gradient.

What is the sodium potassium pump?

300

Small changes in the membrane potential; immediately follow an AP.

What is an afterpotential?

300

Janitorial Services; "tiny"

What are microglia?

300
The Wine press of herophilus; spider layer.

What is the arachnoid layer? What is a layer of the meninges?

400

Drive ionic movement.

What are electrostatic pressure and diffusion?

400

It either does or does not.

What is the "all-or-none" property?

400

multipolar and very large; movement.

What are motorneurons?

400

Exogenous; 5HT production; Seinfeld.

What is tryptophan?

500

The equilibrium potential of K+.

What is the resting membrane potential?

500

Speed conduction velocity.

What are the myelin sheaths?

500

Are typically inhibitory connections.

What are synapses on the soma of a neuron?
500

4 credit cards thick; woof woof.

What is the thickness of the adult human cortex?

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