PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Camillo Golgi, Resting Potential, Andrew Huxley
15 Sep 2016
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The human brain consists of roughly 100 billion neurons and roughly 100 trillion synapses: synapse: connection between two neurons. Neurons are cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform information processing traits. In 1906, camillo golgi and santiago ramon y cajal were jointly awarded the nobel prize in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system : ramon: could see that they were all connected to each other. They communicated to each other through synapse- hadn"t named it that yet/didn"t know it was for certain: golgi: golgi stain. The nervous system is composed entirely of discrete, individual cells. Neurons are the basic structural and functional unit of the nervous system. Cell body nucleus axon myelin terminal buttons synapse. Dendrites: receive information from other neurons; feed into the cell body: dendritic spines: form unique synapses with other cells.
