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Neurophysiology/History
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Anatomy
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03/03/2011

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Ranvier
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Nodes of Ranvier
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How much money was given to NIH for neuroscience in 2009?
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1.5 billion
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Schwann
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Schwann cells
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Golgi and Cajal
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studied nerve cell in it's entirety including the axon
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Weigert
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Franz Gall
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Phrenology
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Wernicke and Broca
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both described different kinds of aphasia --> described localization of function
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Memory storage
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Karl Lashley
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Wilder Penfield
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Circuits of function.. stimulated different parts of the brain during surgery
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In integrate out
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circuit
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parallel processing
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pathways carrying same information; redundancy; can carry info in different form
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crossed versus uncrossed
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pathways/hemispheres
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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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hierarchy
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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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shark
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small visual process; crazy olfactory set up
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frog
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stationary; small cerebellum and large visual reflex centers (midbrain tectum
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alligator
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snout
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rabbit
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has well developed cerebellum to make sudden movements to get away from predator
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dog
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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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