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Neuroscience Ques.
Question | Answer |
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What is the 'Astonishing Hypothesis"? | It is that you, your joys, and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. |
What did DesCartes believe? | He believed in Dualism; that people are two parts (material and spiritual). |
What do Neurons do? | They sum up and transmit information. There are 100,000,000,000 in the human brain. |
Give an example of how sensory neurons, motor neurons, and interneurons work. | You touch something hot - it burns you - you pull away. Your sensory neurons sense it is hot, tells your interneurons, which tells your motor neurons to pull away. |
What does it mean when your Neurons can code for 'intensity'? | They know the number of neurons firing and the frequency of neurons firing. (Example: Fire. Fire. Fire. Fire. VS: firefirefirefiREFIREFIREFIRE). |
What neurotransmitters do Axons release? Give examples of each. | Excitatory (+) such as amphetamines or prozac, and Inhibitory (-) such as alcohol or curare. |
Name all six parts of a Neuron. | 1. Dendrite 2. Nucleus 3. Axon 4. Cellbody 5. Myelin Sheath 6. Axon Terminal |