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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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Choreoathetosis
Biology; Neuroscience
The combination of jerky, ballistic, and writhing movements that characterises the late stages of Huntington's disease.
Lateral (Sylvian) fissure
Biology; Neuroscience
The cleft on the lateral surface of the brain that separates the temporal and frontal lobes.
Cochlea
Biology; Neuroscience
The coiled structure within the inner ear where vibrations caused by sound are transduced into neural impulses.
End plate
Biology; Neuroscience
The complex postsynaptic specialisation at the site of nerve contact on skeletal muscle fibers.
Motor neuron pool
Biology; Neuroscience
The collection of motor neurons that innervates a single muscle.
Reversal potential
Biology; Neuroscience
The membrane potential of a post-synaptic neuron (or other target cell) at which the action of a given neurotransmitter causes no net current flow.
Calcarine sulcus
Biology; Neuroscience
The major sulcus on the medial aspect of the occipital lobe; the primary visual cortex lies largely within this sulcus.
