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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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Pore loop
Biology; Neuroscience
An extracellular domain of amino acids, found in certain ion channels, that lines the channel pore and allows only certain ions to pass.
Primate
Biology; Neuroscience
An order of mammals that includes lemurs, tarsiers, marmosets, monkeys, apes, and humans (technically, a member of this order).
Permissive
Biology; Neuroscience
An influence during development that permits differentiation to occur but does not specifically instruct cell fate.
Oscillopsia
Biology; Neuroscience
An inability to fixate visual targets while the head is moving as a result of vestibular damage.
Placebo
Biology; Neuroscience
An inert substance that when administered may, because of the circumstances, have physiological effects.
Tropic
Biology; Neuroscience
An influence of one cell or tissue on the direction of movement (or outgrowth) of another.
Pontine relay nuclei
Biology; Neuroscience
Collections of neurons in the pons that receive input from the cerebral cortex and send their axons across the midline to the cerebellar cortex via the middle cerebellar peduncle.
