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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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Broca's area
Biology; Neuroscience
An area in the left frontal lobe specialised for the production of speech.
Efferent
Biology; Neuroscience
An axon that conducts information away from the central nervous system.
Computational mapping
Biology; Neuroscience
Central process of assessing and integrating multiple stimulus attributes into an orderly representation that facilitates the extraction and processing of essential information (e.g., the number and ...
Embryonic stem (ES) cells
Biology; Neuroscience
Cells derived from pre-gastrula embryos that have the potential for infinite self-renewal and can give rise to all tissue and cell types of the organism. See also glial stem cells; neural stem cells.
Active transporters
Biology; Neuroscience
Cell membrane molecules that consume energy to move ions up their concentration gradients, thus restoring and/or maintaining normal concentration gradients across cell membranes.
Laminae
Biology; Neuroscience
Cell layers that characterise the neocortex, hippocampus, and cerebellar cortex. The grey matter of the spinal cord is also arranged in laminae.
Subventricular zones
Biology; Neuroscience
Cell-dense regions adjacent to the ventricular spaces of cortical hemispheres.
