PSYC 2410 Study Guide - Final Guide: Microtubule, Golgi Apparatus, Antidromic

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Elena Choleris

Document Summary

Function of neurons: how neurons conduct and transmit electrochemical signals through your nervous system. Dopamine is not an effective treatment for parkinson"s disease because it does not readily penetrate the blood-brain barrier. Dopaminergic transmission has led to the development of an effective treatment: l-dopa, the chemical precursor of dopamine, which penetrates the blood- brain barrier and is converted to dopamine once inside the brain. Membrane potential is the difference in electrical charge between the inside and the outside of a cell. The potential inside the resting neuron is about 70 mv less than that outside the neuron this steady membrane potential is the resting potential. In its resting state, with the -70 mv charge built up across its membrane, a neuron is said to be polarized. One is passive: it does not involve the consumption of energy and it contributes because of its differential permeability to those ions. Concluded that when neurons are at rest, the unequal distribution of.