BIOL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Visual Cortex, Multiple Sclerosis, Exocytosis
22 Jan 2016
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Controlling movement and other functions (controls movements in response to the world through the motor neurons and the spinal cord, or you can have emotional responses) Functionally central cell type is the neuron (neurons move information around, they are not the only important cells . Glial cells also play an important role in the way info is integrated and maintain, glial cells make myelin). Electrochemical signaling along the plasma membrane of the neuron (it is the actual plasma membrane where the signal is occurring, ap is propagated). Chemical signaling at synapses, the spaces between a cell that is sending a signal and cell that is receiving. Visual cortex: back of the brain, groups of cells respond to movements, different cells responds to light, the brain reassembles the visual impression of the world to match what is out there. Neurons carry signals relatively long distances therefore they have a long structure.
