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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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postsynaptic potential (PSP)
Biology; Neuroscience
The potential change produced in a postsynaptic neuron by the binding of neurotransmitter released from a presynaptic neuron.
neural tube
Biology; Neuroscience
The primordium of the brain and spinal cord; derived from the neural ectoderm.
medium spiny neuron
Biology; Neuroscience
The principal projection neuron of the caudate and putamen.
phototransduction
Biology; Neuroscience
The process by which light is converted in electrical signals in the retina.
axoplasmic transport
Biology; Neuroscience
The process by which materials are carried from nerve cell bodies to their terminals (anterograde transport), or from nerve cell terminals to the neuronal cell body (retrograde transport).
Wallerian degeneration
Biology; Neuroscience
The process by which the distal portion of a damaged axon segment degenerates; named after Augustus Waller, a nineteenth-century physician and neuroanatomist.
neurulation
Biology; Neuroscience
The process by which the neural plate folds to form the neural tube.
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