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"If you look at the anatomy, the structure, the function, there's nothing in the universe that's more beautiful, that's more complex, than the human brain."
- Keith Black, Discover Magazine,
April, 2004(http://discovermagazine.com/2004/apr/keith-black)
Brain Architecture
Corey A. SpitzerBarcamp Omaha 2009
Disclaimer:
I am a computer science grad student with a strong interest in neuroscience; NOT a doctor,
biologist, etc.
Two Primary Types of Brain Cells
Neurons Glia
© 2007, Paul De Koninck. http://www.greenspine.ca/en/framed.html
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gfapastr5.jpg
The Neuron
Dendrites
Axon
Axon Terminals
Nucleus
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuron-figure-notext.svg
Neural Networks
Otto Loewi and the Frog Hearts
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuron-figure-notext.svg
Otto Loewi and the Frog Hearts
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heart_left_lateral_coronaries_diagram.svg
The Synapse
axon terminal
axon
vesicles full of neurotransmitter
ions
receptors and ion channels
dendritespine
The Synapse
axon terminal
axon
vesicles full of neurotransmitter
ions
receptors and ion channels
dendritespine
The Synapse
axon terminal
axon
vesicles full of neurotransmitter
ions
receptors and ion channels
dendritespine
The Synapse
axon terminal
axon
vesicles full of neurotransmitter
ions
receptors and ion channels
dendritespine
The Synapse
axon terminal
axon
vesicles full of neurotransmitter
ions
receptors and ion channels
dendritespine
Kinds of Signals
Neural Circuits
Plasticity and Hebbian Learning
Putting it all Together
References and Sources
References and Sources
The End
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