PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Axon Hillock, Neuroglia, Sciatic Nerve
6 Feb 2014
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Neuroscience: don"t actually experience anything directly stimulus from environment triggers series of events in cns then we become aware of these processes, not the direct stimuli itself, structural questions. Give us a map/blueprint of the brain"s structure: functional questions you will never understand why it is there understand the whole picture. If you don"t know what a part does: brain makes up 2% of body weight but consumes a large proportion of the energy supply burns 20% of our oxygen intake at rest. 2 basic cell types: glial cells and neurons: glial cells more glial cells than neurons. Provide structure and perform housekeeping tasks in the brain far: neuron. Typically referred to as the brain cell" 100 billion in an adult human brain may form synapses with thousands of other neurons result in brain with a thousand trillion different connections: organelles function.
