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What Prehistoric and Indigenous Peoples Knew Objective 1: Describe the evidence that prehistoric and indigenous humans were aware of brain function. Neuroscience is a field that is both ineffably ancient and incredibly modern. Humans have been curious about what makes the brains work for as long as we have been human; understanding that one has a brain and trying to understand how that brain interacts with the environment is the very essence of what neuroscience and psychology define as consciou

Chapters

• Localization of Function: Successes and Failures
• The Imaging Revolution
• How the Neural Tube Develops Into the Major Divisions of the Central Nervous Sys
• The Gyrencephalic Brain: Sulci
• The Gyrencephalic Brain: Gyri and Functional Areas
• The Medulla
• Anterior and Posterior Circulation of the Brain
• Techniques Used to Study Neurons at the Cellular Level
• Myelination
• The Neuronal Membrane is Selectively Permeable
• The Action Potential in Myelinated Axons
• Packaging Neurotransmitter Into Vesicles
• Neurotransmitter Release
• Ionotropic Receptors (Ligand-Gated Channels)
• Transduction by Metabotropic Receptors
• Cable Properties of Neurons
• Spatial and Temporal Summation
• The History of the Concept of Modifiable Synapses
• The Hippocampal Slice
• Early and Late Long-Term Potentiation
• The Eye and Retina
• Visual Transduction
• Edge Processing in the Retina
• Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)
• 1 Invertebrate Olfaction
• 2 Human Chemical Senses

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