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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.

Contributors in Neuroscience

Neuroscience

hair cells

Biology; Neuroscience

The sensory cells within the inner ear that transduce mechanical displacement into neural impulses.

cranial nerve ganglia

Biology; Neuroscience

The sensory ganglia associated with the cranial nerves; these correspond to the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal segmental nerves.

trigeminal ganglion

Biology; Neuroscience

The sensory ganglion associated with the trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve V).

ventricular zone

Biology; Neuroscience

The sheet of cells closest to the ventricles in the developing neural tube.

neocortex

Biology; Neuroscience

The six-layered cortex that forms the surface of most of the cerebral hemispheres.

synaptic cleft

Biology; Neuroscience

The space that separates pre- and postsynaptic neurons at chemical synapses.

neuronal geometry

Biology; Neuroscience

The spatial arrangement of neuronal branches.

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