Questions tagged [neuroscience]
For questions on the structure and function of the nervous system.
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Neuroscience - Spikeing due to conductance of Sodium and Potassium
I'm currently working on a project concerning the HH (Hodgkin-Huxley) model. I'm using nest to simulate action potentials. My problem is that I'm supposed to set the conductances as to increase the ...
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Difference between Psychology & Neuroscience in lay man terms?
I am electronics engineer by profession
But i am confused in difference between Psychology & Neuroscience? Please explain in lay man terms?
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Which neurodevelopmental disorders constitute learning disabilities?
I am actually looking at DSM-5 but I cannot find any exhaustive or otherwise comprehensive list or explicit association of which neurodevelopmental disorders are also learning disabilities.
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How are desires explained by molecular biology? [closed]
This question is mainly about neurochemistry and molecular neuroscience! Clarification supposedly suggested by Arnon Weinberg.
I thoroughly and extensively read Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology, ...
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Is there any empirical support to “chemical imbalance theory” for mental illness?
Has it been proved by measurement of chemicals in the brain that psychiatric disorders have either their origin or continuance due to chemical imbalance in the brain? I saw the documentary Diagnostic &...
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Is the visual cortex of a newborn baby immediately capable of object detection or is this skill learned over time, and if so, how?
Is the visual cortex of newborn babies right off the bat capable of making sense of raw visual data, for instance, converting the constant stream of raw RGB images perceived by the eyes into a ...
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Simulating Hudgkin Huxley neural network
I'm starting work on a computational neuroscience project where I want to create my own model of a spiking Hodgkin-Huxley neuron and connect many instances (about 400) of this model through synapses. ...
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Best implementation of large scale neural network simulations
I'm doing research in computational neuroscience and I want to run simulations of large neural networks with complex dynamics. Specifically, using the Hodgkin-Huxley model on ~400 neurons with 30,000 ...
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Voltage Clamp Method
I don't understand some points of the voltage clamp method. In the resting state, Command voltage and membrane potential are both -65mv. If the command voltage increases to 0mv, current is injected ...
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How do we know what colors animals perceive?
Humans have three kinds of photoreceptors corresponding to different wavelength-spectra:
If say photons with wavelengths of around 530 nanometers hit the human retina, this would lead to the ...
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What are the neuroscience research findings on the importance of breaks in cognitive function and specifically learning?
When I say breaks I mean breaks between periods of the same course, breaks between two distinct courses, single days of, weekends, couple days of, few days of, longer periods of holidays of duration ...
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How action potentials work
At this point, I have a fairly solid grasp on the process of an action potential from some of my own reading. However, I fail to see how sending excitatory signals to a specific neuron can encode any ...
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Coincidence Detectors
Suppose such a neuron has two dendrites D_1 and D_2 with identical input weights (say of value 1).
Assuming the leak is small, say 1/50 of the size of a spike.
Is it possible to design a ...
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free will studies in long term decisoin making [duplicate]
this wikidepia article has a list of experiments and discussion around free will in neuroscience. One thing it notes is that there aren't studies focused on long term decision making in relation to ...
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Cerebellum question
Sorry if this sounds at all like pretentious armchair theorizing(it basically is), but I have a question which I can't really figure out how to search. So, given the resemblance of the cerebellum to ...
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How can different ion channels of the same type have different cell responses?
The NMDA receptor is an ion channel and contributes to synaptic plasticity and memory. It is said that calcium ion flux through the receptor is critical for this mechanism. However, there are other ...
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What is the exact chemical reaction that gives consciousness? [closed]
Something very bizarre is consciousness, it is our ability to virtually feel things such as emotions and ability to control our thoughts and physical movement.
We can also imagine a non-conscious ...
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Why can't human thoughts be stored in metals?
As metals are good conductors of electricity and they can be charged by the electrical activity of thoughts, why can't human thoughts be stored in metals?
Why thoughts cannot be stored in the form of ...
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How fast can stimuli be administered for evoked potentials?
I'm looking for a reference about the ability for sensory stimuli to generate separate evoked potentials in the brain.
What is the maximum repetition rate for sensory evoked potentials?
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Is the Thatcher Face Illusion only limited to face recognition?
The so called Thatcher-Illusion has been documented not only on humans but also in some monkeys.
However I can't find literature clearing out if this effect only applies to face-recognition.
What ...
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Have there been any right-hemisphere-dominant split-brain-patients?
Do any case studies of right-hemisphere dominant individuals who have undergone a severance of the corpus callosum exist? Thanks.
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How can someone asleep recognize a very brief sound?
I have a snoring girlfriend. To interrupt her snoring, I make a sound similar to the very brief sound gas makes when opening a soda can or bottle (had a snoring brother, I know this technique works ...
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Is there a Big Five personality assessment under an open-commercial license?
I am currently working on a project with a few students. It's an app that can test the big 5 personality test. The problem is, I am having trouble finding one that is under an open license and that we ...
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Using neuroscience to study a new organism [closed]
Consider a situation where you discover a new species and of organism. Using research methods of neuroscience or otherwise, how would you go about analyzing the nervous system and the brain of this ...
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Which are the arguments for asserting mental life/consciouness happen only in the cerebral cortex?
I've read many articles / researchs and they are hard to follow. Several times concepts are hard to understand, it would seem certain concepts such as "cognition" are fuzzy terms and they become part ...
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What's the difference between the neuroendocrine system vs endocrine system?
No one in the Biology site seems to be answering this, so I thought I'd post it here as a last resort. I would really appreciate if you guys can take a look at it.
This is what I have understood so ...
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Typical and minimum voxel sizes for various field strength MRI machines?
Hoping somebody can give me some real world numbers on the typical capabilities of 3T and 7T MRI machines in terms of there minimum voxel size (specifically in relation to there use in fMRI studies if ...
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Is there any research on whether primates with sign language use same fronto-temporal language networks observed in humans?
I have been reading up on research carried out at Ev Fedorenko's MIT Language Lab on localising the high-level language processing regions in humans using fMRI and was wondering if any comparative ...
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Bottom up thinking - what is it?
Mlodinow has book Elastic thinking, which sounds interesting and where he mentions bottom up processes/thinking; which he equates with elastic thinking.
I have watched numerous videos about it, and ...
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Can the brain be enhanced by adding more neurons?
I was wondering of ways to enhance the brain. Couldn't we add a sort of substance to improve the brain? Will it somehow adapt? The brain should 'wire up' the new substance to the existing one.
As ...
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Are neural adaptation and drug tolerance to psychoactive drugs related?
Neural adaptation is "...a change over time in the responsiveness of the sensory system to a constant stimulus". The example given is placing your hand on the surface of a table. Eventually, you no ...
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Do neurons involved in reflex movements process information or they just transmit a signal?
According to Reflex
A reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus. A reflex is made possible by neural pathways called reflex arcs which ...
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How are ocular dominance columns monocular despite binocular complex cells?
Orientation columns in the primary visual cortex are known to have (mostly) simple cells in layers 4 and 6, and (mostly) complex cells in layers 2,3 and 5. Orientation columns spanning an entire range ...
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Can a device create/guide neuron connections between them?
Is there a device of some sort that could promote/guide/create exact connections between neurons? I wish there was a device that could get me PhD by just wearing it for a few months.
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when is default mode active
AFAIK default mode is important for our well being since as I am concerned one of its functions is to make sense of things we learned, experienced, etc.
Here is says default mode is active when ...
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Integrated Information Theory - If correct could humans create artificial consciousness?
First off please keep in mind I am self-learning and am learning about this for fun, I have no end goal. I'm trying to make predictions about what I am learning implies or means, so I can ask better ...
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Differences in reaction time on visual tasks with and without binocular disparity ques?
Have there been any studies done that test the reaction time to vision processing tasks with and without the benefit of binocular disparities? I have been wondering how much depth information (such as ...
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Is there any evidence for or against the existence of neurons that encode surface slant in vision?
In the way orientation columns display selectivity for various edge orientations projected on the retina which is then repeated at various angles in a localised region of the cortex. I am wondering ...
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Lovheim cube research
Is there any psychology research into the validity of the Lovheim cube of emotion?
Aside from the original paper (Lovheim, 2012) and papers from computer sciences (the cube is being used for ...
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How do we know human brain development stops around age 25?
I've heard this stated as a fact more times than I can keep track of, but I haven't been able to find papers that actually demonstrate this. This seems to be the most cited paper on the topic, but it ...
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What exactly are the X and the Y axis of a brainwave?
I can't seem to wrap my head around how a bunch of organic transistors (neurons) could possibly produce a wave? What exactly is a brain wave? If you graph a brain wave what exactly would your X and Y ...
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Is is possible to “delete” a memory permanently?
If cognitive memory is compared to computer memory, then is it possible to purposefully and permanently forget a specific memory, using known technologies and methodologies?
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Reference request: Parkinson's disease book [closed]
I am about start a project on computational modelling of basal ganglia in the context of motor problems in Parkinson's disease. My background is mostly on computational side (and some neuroscience too)...
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Since we know the 5ht2a receptor impacts learning efficiency why has stimulating it not been tried for alleviating learning disabilities?
If you go on wikipedia or do a search on Google you can quickly find a bunch of articles on the importance of serotonin for impacting the efficacy of learning. Experiments have been run in mice for ...
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If a specific neuron is present in my brain, will it be present in another person's brain?
For example if I have a neuron cell that fires when I say the letter 'A' and is located at a specific place in my brain, will another person have that cell at the exact same place and will it fire ...
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Looking for text books comparing animal and human brain
Are there any papers or textbooks comparing animal nervous system and human's ?
I'm most interested in "higher" animals such as mammals(Chimps, dogs etc.)
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How are the brains of mathematicians different from typical people?
As a biomedical sciences student who also minors in Mathematics, I am often amazed by some of my classmates who really appear to be born for Mathematics (with regards to both their abilities and ...
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How does modulation of the activity of an afferent neuron lead to increase in MEP's?
I was confused reading this:
Another example has been described with the primary motor cortex,
where the afferent axonal synaptic input (Figure 1) can be facilitated
by anodal tDCS (Rahman et ...
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Are there animals with only excitatory neurons?
Are there animals with only excitatory neurons?
I am not sure it is possible.
Also, maybe excitation/inhibition can become relative?
I however will be happy to read your opinion..
For example, are ...
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What is the difference between principal neurons and pyramidal cells?
I am reading Kandel's "Principals of Neural Sciences". There the book sometimes refers to excitatory neurons as principal cells, and sometimes as pyramidal cells.
Can anyone tell me the difference? ...
