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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choreoathetosis

Biology; Neuroscience

The combination of jerky, ballistic, and writhing movements that characterizes the late stages of Huntington’s disease.

genome

Biology; Neuroscience

The complete set of an animal’s genes.

end plate

Biology; Neuroscience

The complex postsynaptic specialization at the site of nerve contact on skeletal muscle fibers.

visceral motor system

Biology; Neuroscience

The component of the motor system (also known as the autonomic nervous system) that motivates and governs visceral motor behavior.

autonomic nervous system

Biology; Neuroscience

The components of the nervous system (peripheral and central) concerned with the regulation of smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands (see also visceral motor system).

amnesia

Biology; Neuroscience

The pathological inability to remember or establish memories; retrograde amnesia is the inability to recall existing memories, whereas anterograde amnesia is the inability to lay down new memories.