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Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function
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This course aims for a mechanistic description of mammalian brain function at the level of individual nerve cells and their synaptic interactions.
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Lectures in this MOOC (35)
Cellular Mechanisms of Brain FunctionMOOC: Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function
Series explores the biophysics of neurons and synapses, synaptic transmission, and brain function.
Cell Membrane: Structure and FunctionMOOC: Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function
Explores the cell membrane's structure, permeability, capacitance, and role in generating membrane potentials.
Ion channels: Structure and FunctionMOOC: Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function
Explores the structure and function of ion channels, including their rapid conformational changes and key features like open probability.
Membrane potential: Cellular mechanismsMOOC: Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function
Explains membrane potential, equilibrium potentials, and ion conductances' role in determining the membrane potential.
Cable properties: Cellular Mechanisms of Brain FunctionMOOC: Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function
Explores the dynamics of membrane potential in neurons and the cable equation at steady state.
Related concepts (158)
Human brain
The human brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. It controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sense organs, and making decisions as to the instructions sent to the rest of the body. The brain is contained in, and protected by, the skull bones of the head.
Lateralization of brain function
The lateralization of brain function (or hemispheric dominance/ latralisation ) is the tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be specialized to one side of the brain or the other. The median longitudinal fissure separates the human brain into two distinct cerebral hemispheres, connected by the corpus callosum. Although the macrostructure of the two hemispheres appears to be almost identical, different composition of neuronal networks allows for specialized function that is different in each hemisphere.
Whiskers
Vibrissae (vəˈbrɪsi; singular: vibrissa; vəˈbrɪsə), more generally called whiskers, are a type of stiff, functional hair used by mammals to sense their environment. These hairs are finely specialised for this purpose, whereas other types of hair are coarser as tactile sensors. Although whiskers are specifically those found around the face, vibrissae are known to grow in clusters at various places around the body. Most mammals have them, including all non-human primates and especially nocturnal mammals.
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