Neuroscience

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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Cognitive neuroscience

Biology; Neuroscience

The field of neuroscience devoted to studying and understanding cognitive functions.

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.

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.

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).