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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Contralateral neglect syndrome

Biology; Neuroscience

Neurological condition in which the patient does not acknowledge or attend to the left visual hemifield or the left half of the body. The syndrome typically results from lesions of the right parietal ...

BHLH proteins

Biology; Neuroscience

Neurogenic transcription factors (named for a shared basic helix-loop-helix amino acid motif that defines their DNA-binding domain) that have emerged as central to the differentiation of distinct ...

Rostral interstitial nucleus

Biology; Neuroscience

Neurons in the midbrain reticular formation that coordinate the actions of neurons in the oculomotor nuclei to generate vertical movements of the eye; also known as the "vertical gaze center."

Associational systems

Biology; Neuroscience

Neural cell circuits that are not part of the relatively defined sensory (input) and motor (output) systems; they mediate the most complex and least well defined brain functions.

Glial stem cells

Biology; Neuroscience

Neural precursor cells in the adult brain that retain the capacity to proliferate and generate both additional precursor cells and differentiated glial cells (and, in some cases, differentiated ...

Schwann cells

Biology; Neuroscience

Neuroglial cells in the peripheral nervous system that elaborate myelin (named after the nineteenth-century anatomist and physiologist Theodor Schwann).