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| How much money was given to NIH for neuroscience in 2009? |
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| studied nerve cell in it's entirety including the axon |
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| both described different kinds of aphasia --> described localization of function |
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| Circuits of function.. stimulated different parts of the brain during surgery |
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| pathways carrying same information; redundancy; can carry info in different form |
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| hierarchical organization |
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| cortex integrates and is the highest level of organization processing happens in lower centers |
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| localized versus distributed |
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| information can be sent to different places to be processed such as vision, a distributive process |
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| cortex --> projection area (brainstem) --> cord --> sensory/motor |
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| electrochemical versus chemical |
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| brain as gland versus brain as computer... local chemical environment of neuron can effect signaling.. hormones, etc. |
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evolution and natural selection
gene action and development (epigenetics) |
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| determinants of CNS structure |
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| small visual process; crazy olfactory set up |
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| stationary; small cerebellum and large visual reflex centers (midbrain tectum |
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| has well developed cerebellum to make sudden movements to get away from predator |
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| is pretty smart and has some wrinkles on its cortex and a big cerebellum to catch its prey |
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