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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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Parkinson’s disease
Biology; Neuroscience
A neurodegenerative disease of the substantia nigra that results in a characteristic tremor at rest and a general paucity of movement.
Upper motor neuron
Biology; Neuroscience
A neuron that gives rise to a descending projection that controls the activity of lower motor neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord.
Motor unit
Biology; Neuroscience
A motor neuron and the skeletal muscle fibres it innervates; more loosely, the collection of skeletal muscle fibres innervated by a single motor neuron.
Receptor
Biology; Neuroscience
A molecule specialised to bind any one of a large number of chemical signals, preeminently neurotransmitters.
Primary neuron
Biology; Neuroscience
A neuron that directly links muscles, glands, and sense organs to the central nervous system.
Collapsin
Biology; Neuroscience
A molecule that causes collapse of growth cones; a member of the semaphorin family of signalling molecules.
Retrograde
Biology; Neuroscience
A movement or influence acting from the axon terminal toward the cell body.
