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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Propeptides

Biology; Neuroscience

Partially processed forms of proteins containing peptide sequences that play a role in the correct folding of the final protein.

Corticobulbar tract

Biology; Neuroscience

Pathway carrying motor information from the primary and secondary motor cortices to the brainstem.

Inferior colliculi

Biology; Neuroscience

Paired hillocks on the dorsal surface of the midbrain; concerned with auditory processing.

Lower motor neuron syndrome

Biology; Neuroscience

Signs and symptoms arising from damage to a motor neurons; these include paralysis or paresis, muscle atrophy, areflexia, and fibrillations.

Cephalic flexure

Biology; Neuroscience

Sharp bend in the neural tube which during early neurulation balloons out to form the prosencephalon, which in turn will give rise to the forebrain and later to the cerebral hemispheres.

Spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus

Biology; Neuroscience

Sexually dimorphic collection of neurons in the lumbar region of the rodent spinal cord that innervate striated perineal muscles.

Onuf’s nucleus

Biology; Neuroscience

Sexually dimorphic nucleus in the human spinal cord that innervates striated perineal muscles mediating contraction of the bladder in males, and vaginal constriction in females.