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Acknowledgements
Mei-ling Joiner
1. What is Neuroscience?
Valerie Hedges
2. The Neuron
Casey Henley
3. Ion Movement
4. Membrane Potential
5. The Membrane at Rest
6. Postsynaptic Potentials
7. Action Potentials
8. Voltage Clamp
9. Synapse Structure
10. Neurotransmitter Synthesis and Storage
11. Neurotransmitter Release
12. Neurotransmitter Action: Ionotropic Receptors
13. Neurotransmitter Action: G-Protein-Coupled Receptors
14. Neurotransmitter Clearance
15. Drug and Toxin Effects
16. Anatomical Terminology
17. External Brain Anatomy
18. Cells of the Nervous System: Glia
19. Internal Brain Anatomy
20. Brainstem and Spinal Cord
21. Peripheral Nervous System
22. General Principles of Sensory Systems
23. Vision: The Retina
24. Vision: Central Processing
25. Perceiving sound: our sense of hearing
Dr Eleanor J. Dommett
26. Somatosensory Systems
27. Touch: The Skin
28. Touch: Central Processing
29. Pain
30. Taste
31. Spinal Motor Control and Proprioception
32. Spinal Reflexes
33. Planning of Movement
34. Execution of Movement
35. Basal Ganglia
36. Neural Control of Stress
37. HPA Axis
38. Circadian Rhythms
39. Sleep and EEG
40. Molecular Mechanisms of Memory: Aplysia
41. Memory Systems
42. Molecular Mechanisms of Memory: Hippocampus
43. Motivation and Reward
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