Neurons and other animals

This week’s lecture talked about sensory systems such as taste (fancy name gustation), smell (fancy name olfaction), and vision (no fancy name).

We learned how the brain codes all

This week’s lecture covered chapter 6 from the book, which discussed neurotransmitter systems.

There are more than 100 different neurotransmitters with approximately 10 doing most of the work (very

This week’s lecture was about synapses and synaptic transmissions and how a signal transmits from one neuron to another. We learned about chemical synapses and the way the action potential opens

This week’s lecture covered mainly chapters 3 and 4 from our course book. As it is still the beginning of the course, it feels like everyone is trying to understand exactly