Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Neuroscience is a branch of biology concerned with the study of the nervous system, the brain and the links between brain activities and behaviors.

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bHLH proteins

Biology; Neuroscience

Neurogenic transcription factors (named for a shared basic helix-loop-helix amino acid motif that defines their DNA-binding domain) that have emerged as central to the differentiation of distinct ...

Schwann cells

Biology; Neuroscience

Neuroglial cells in the peripheral nervous system that elaborate myelin (named after the nineteenth-century anatomist and physiologist Theodor Schwann).

contralateral neglect syndrome

Neurological condition in which the patient does not acknowledge or attend to the left visual hemifield or the left half of the body. The syndrome typically results from lesions of the right parietal ...

rostral interstitial nucleus

Biology; Neuroscience

Neurons in the midbrain reticular formation that coordinate the actions of neurons in the oculomotor nuclei to generate vertical movements of the eye; also known as the “vertical gaze center.”

paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF)

Biology; Neuroscience

Neurons in the reticular formation of the pons that coordinate the actions of motor neurons in the abducens and oculomotor nuclei to generate horizontal movements of the eyes; also known as the ...