neuroscience

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• 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.
• Action Potentials
  The electrical pulse neurons use to send signals: resting potential, ion channels, and the all-or-none wave that travels down axons.