Neuroanatomy
The ridges and folds on the brain's surface.
What are gyri?
This neuroimaging technique is invasive, as it causes a temporary "lesion" in the brain.
What is transcranial magnetic stimulation?
The lobe of the brain that contains the primary visual cortex.
What is the occipital lobe?
This peripheral nervous system is also known as the "rest/digest" system.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain.
What is GABA?
This delicate, innermost layer of the meninges is often referred to as "tender mother."
What is pia mater?
This noninvasive method of neuroimaging detects changes in blood flow, as measured by changes in oxygen use for different parts of the brain.
This type of neuron has two projections (one dendrite and one axon) and is common in the sensory system.
What is a bipolar neuron?
These three tiny bones help to amplify sound so that it can pass through the liquid-filled inner ear.
This glia cell form the myelin surrounding axons of the central nervous system.
What is an oligodendrocyte?
These specialized cavities in the brain produce and circulate cerebrospinal fluid.
What are the ventricles?
This method of study is better than ex vivo and in vivo studies for situations in which the researcher would like almost complete control over environmental factors, but the downside is the low therapeutic potential.
What is in vitro?
The condition that often occurs with damage to the fusiform area region.
What is prosopagnosia, or "face blindness"?
This lobe contains the primary somatosensory cortex.
What is the parietal lobe?
The voltage inside the axon during the resting potential phased.
What is -70mV?
This part of the neuron is not wrapped in myelin and helps to "hop" the action potential along the axon terminal quickly through saltatory conduction.
Collecting brain images along this axis allows clinicians to see pictures of each side of the brai as if it were cut down the midline/longitudinal fissure of the brain.
What is sagittal?
This condition occurs when there is damage to an information-conveying pathway in the visual system, resulting in someone suddenly losing the ability to see half of their visual field.
What is Hemianopsia?
These cells are not neurons but they detect tastes using tiny hairs and pass signals along to afferent gustatory nerve fibers.
What are taste receptor cells?
This type of transmembrane protein on a postsynaptic cell does not have an ion channel, but instead, it passes along a signal through a secondary messenger cascade.
What is a metabotropic receptor or G-coupled protein receptor?
These types of synapses can pass information between cells very quickly and in both directions because they are close together and can share cytoplasm.
What are electrical synapses?
Not Methods of neuroscience but wanted to include it:
These neurons are the only neurons in the central nervous system open to the outside air and are one of the few neurons in the brain that can regenerate.
What are olfactory receptor neurons?
This layer of the retina detects photons and converts them into nerve impulses.
What are the photoreceptor cells (i.e., rods and cones)?
This cranial nerve is responsible for smelling.
What is the olfactory nerve?
When the cell membrane reaches this stage (e.g., for potassium), the same number of potassium cells are going in and out of the cell (i.e., potassium has reached equilibrium) and reversal equilibrium has been reached.
What is equilibrium potential?