NATS 1860 Lecture Notes - Sodium Channel, Axon Hillock, Electrical Brain Stimulation
18 Jan 2013
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One turns it off, and prevents from firing: mind altering drugs, small neural networks. Similar experiments were done on humans during epilepsy seizures surgeries. Left half of the cortex receives information from the right half of our body, whereas the left motor cortex controls the right side of the body. Right half of the cortex senses the left half of the world and the right motor cortex controls left side of body. Corpus callosum: axons connecting left and right cortex. A neuron is one nerve cell, and a nerve is typically around a million connection of nerve cells: a corpus callosum is a body of millions of nerve cells. Axons are the main part of the nerve cell that are in nerve. There are about 100 billion neurons in our brains and thousands of synapses from each neuron. A nerve cell has a cell-body (soma) They start at the soma and then go to different directions.
