functional unit of nervous system neuron excitable electrical activity to carry signals amitotic do not undergo mitosis interneurons integration between afferent and efferent strucutral classifications of neurons anaxonic, bipolar, unipolar, multipolar anaxonic neuron characteristics no axon, lots of dendrites...
Biophysics study how hormones move around the cell and how cells communicate with each other Neuroscience Biophysicist are building computer models called neural networks to model how the brain and nervous system work Bio engineering, nanotechnologies, bio materials ...
-intricate regulatory processes orchestrated by the nervous, endocrine, paracrine, autocrine systems ("stability through change") -adaptive process (original homeostatic set points may not always be possible to achieve --> Original homeostatic set points may not always be possible to achieve --> new...
transmit information about how to respond to a stimulus out to the effectors ___ occurs when the nervous system restructures its circuits in response to new information or experiences. plasticity The ___ phagocytize debris and damaged cells. microglia The ___ form the cerebral spinal fluid...