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Neurons

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cells that convert sensory information into the brain, carry out operations, and transmit commands to the body

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Bipolar neuron

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dendrites on one side, receive info, cell body, and then the axon terminals which send info to other cells
- sensory

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Motor Neurons

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carries commands to the muscles and organs
- sent away from CNS

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Sensory Neurons

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carry info from the body and outside world into the brain and spinal cord

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Interneurons

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  • majority of neutrons
  • neurone which connect one neutron to another in the same part of the brain or spinal cord
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Cell Membrane

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  • phospholipid bilayer
  • has a hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic tail
  • decides what gets in and what doesn’t
  • has proteins floating around that act as a channel, choose what comes in and out
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Polarization

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a state in which there is a difference in electrical charge between the inside and outside of the neutron
- due to selective permeability

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Voltage

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measure of the difference in electrical charge between two points

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Resting Potential

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  • difference in charge between inside and outside of membrane of a neuron at rest
  • on average, -70mV
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Ions

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atoms that have lost or gained elections

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Postive Ions

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Na+, K+

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Negative

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Cl-, A-

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Force of Diffusion

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tendency of ions to move through membrane to the less concentrated side

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Electrostatic Pressure

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force where ions are prelude from similarly charged, attracted to oppositely charged

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Sodium Potassium Pump

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large protein molecules that move sedum ions through cell membrane to outside, potassium ions back inside
- uses up a lot of energy
- accounts for about 40% of your neurone energy

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Ion Channels

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gated pores in the membrane formed by proteins; limit the flow on ions into and out of the cell
- can be chemically gated or electrically

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Chemically Gated

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neurotransmitter or hormones must bind for the channel to open
- the right one must bind or else it won’t open

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Electrically Gated

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will stay closed unless there is a change in electrical potential of the membrane

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Excitatory

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increase the likelihood of depolarization

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Inhibitory

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decrease the likelihood of depolarization

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Local Potential

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  • partial depoloarlization
  • polarity in an area shifts toward zero when disturbed
  • “graded potential”
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Action Potential

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abrupt depolarization of membrane that allows neurone to communicate
- huge amount of Na+ coming into the cell
- ungraded

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Hyperpolarization

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when the cell is too negative, below resting potential

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Refractory Period

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break for the neuron
- cannot immediately fire again

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All-or-none Law
occurs at full strength or does not occur at all
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Non-Decremental
as it travels down the axon, it does not loose strength - length of the axon doesn't matter, the strength of the action potential does not change
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Absolute Refractory Period
sodium ion channels are unresponsive to further stimulation - resting - 1-2 ms
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Relative Refractory Period
sodium ion channels could support another action potential, but potassium channels are still open - don't really want to open - 2-3 ms after the absolute refractory period
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Rate Law
axon encodes stimulus intensity not in the size of it's action potential but in it's firing rate
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Glial Cells
cells that provide a number of supporting functions to neurons
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Myelin
fatty tissue that wraps around an axon to insulate it - keeps cell seperate from extracellular fluid and other neurons
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Nodes of Ranvier
gaps in the myelin sheath
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Saltatory Conduction
a form of transmission in which action potentials appear to jump from node to node
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Benefits of Myelin Sheath
- reduces capacitance (slows movement of ions down the axon) - signal regeneration at nodes of Ranvier - use less energy
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Capacitance
electrical effect of the membrane,
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Oligodendrocytes
- glial cells which produce myelin in the brain and spinal cord - almost 75% of glial cells in the brain are oligodendrocytes
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Schwann Cells
glial cells which produce myelin in the rest of the nervous system
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Radial Glia
during the fetal development they form "scaffolds" that guide new neurons to their destinations
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Microglia
provide energy to neurons and respond to injury and disease by removing cellular debris
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Astrocytes
trigger the formation of seven times as many connections in neurons
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Synapse
the connections between two neurons
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Synaptic Cleft
the small gap which separates neurons so they are not in direct physical contact at the synapse
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Presynaptic
transmitting neuron
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Post Synaptic
receiving neuron
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Vesicles
membrane-enclose bubbles at axon terminals which store neurotransmitters
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Ionotropic Receptors
receptors which forth ion channel and open quickly to produce the immediate reactions
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Metabotropic Receptors
receptors which open channels indirectly through a second messenger
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Partial Depolarization
depolarization which is excitatory and facilitates the occurrence of an action potential
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Hyper polarization
increased polarization which is inhibitory and makes an action potential less likely to occur
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Excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP)
when receptors open sodium channels to produce a partial depolarization of the dendrites and cell body
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Inhibitory postsynaptic potential (IPSP)
when receptors open potassium channels, chloride channels, or both to produce a hyper polarization of the dendrites and cell body
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Spatial Summation
combines potentials occurring simultaneously at different locations on the dendrites and cell body
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Temporal Summation
combines potentials arriving a short time apart, from either the same or separate inputs
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Reuptake
transmitters taken back into the terminals by transporter proteins where they are repackaged into vesicles for reuse
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Presynaptic Excitation
increases the presynaptic neutrons release of neurotransmitters onto the postsynaptic neuron
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Presynaptic Inhibition
decreases the presynaptic neutrons release of neurotransmitter onto the postsynaptic neuron
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Autoreceptors
receptors on presynaptic terminals which sense amount of transmitter in cleft
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Dale's Principle
erroneous belief that a neuron was capable of releasing only a single transmitter
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Corelease
partial vesicle opening
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Neural Codes
varied intervals between spikes in nerve signals
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Neural Networks
groups of neurons that function together
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Human Connectome Project
large-scale, multi- university effort to map brai's circuits

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