Neuroscience

The scientific study of the nervous system.

Parent category: Medicine

Articles (2)

• Unihemispheric Sleep: Sleeping with Half a Brain
  Dolphins, seals, and some birds sleep one brain hemisphere at a time — what the EEG shows, why voluntary breathers and vulnerable sleepers evolved it, and what it says about sleep itself.
• Synaptic Transmission
  The process by which neurons communicate across synapses using neurotransmitters, and how it is modulated and terminated.

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