George Van Beskey
endolymph movement bends membrane near base, wave moves towards apex
Carla Shatz
Norwegian Nobel prize - worked on visual system is developed in mammals
Bernard
Millie interior (maintaining homeostasis) 3:vie latente, oscillante, constante
Marcel Proust
people can recall certain tastes & smells and connect it to a memory
Wilder Penfield
Stimulate different parts of the brain, mapped somatosensory and somatomotor cortexes. Neurosurgeon and neuroscientist
Coined phrase homeostasis
Richard Axel & Linda Buck
contributed to olfactory receptor, cracked olfactory code
huxley, huxley, and hanson
sliding filament theory
Coleman
Discovered mutant gene in mice that cause them to be obese
Young-Helmholtz
trichromacy theory of color vision-suggests there are three photopigments that make up color vision
Nancy Wexley
trained as a clinical psychologist, identified George Huntington as diagnosing chorea in predominately men. Found out it was hereditary
Friedman
Identified what incoded (OB), the gene normally encodes normal leptin levels, but if its mutant it causes obesity
Wiesel & Hubel
Figured out how the visual system is set up in processing of thalamofugal pathway
Berta & Emsa Sharrer
Berta outlived husband by 30 years
Cockroaches and hypothalamus (neurosecretion)