Your Brain on Food S This page intentionally left blank Your Brain on Food How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings Gary L. Wenk‚ PhD Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience and Molecular Virology‚ Immunology and Medical Genetics The Ohio State University Columbus‚ OH 1 2010 1 Oxford University Press‚ Inc.‚ publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research‚ scholarship‚ and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town
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correctly answered: b. negative What does it mean that the voltage just inside the membrane is negative? You correctly answered: b. There are more negative charges than positive charges just inside the membrane. The membrane of most cells‚ including neurons‚ contains passive‚ open‚ K+ leak channels. Given the normal K+ concentrations and the resultant concentration gradient‚ which direction would K+ be expected to move (diffuse) through these leak channels? You correctly answered: b. out of the cell
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chemical stimulates motor neurons to active muscles‚ in synapses and other sites across the central nervous system. Cholinergic neurons are the cells that uses acetylcholine to send its messages and perform other important functions [22]. Acetylcholine is synthesized in neuronal terminals from acetyl CoA and choline‚ the enzymes of this reaction is choline acetyltransferase (ChAT). The concentration of choline in plasma is about 10mM‚ from here it is taken up by cholinergic neurons through Na+/Choline
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Pain is an essential sensation needed for survival but on the other hand chronic pain can be a detrimental medical condition. Sensation of pain typically originates from nociceptors located at peripheral neurons (Cummins et al.‚ 2007). Changes brought about in peripheral and central neurons due to altered activity of several ion channels have been linked to the degree of pain sensation. One of the most compelling evidence in the study of pain comes from people who have complete loss of sensation
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How does Cannabis cause addiction? Addiction is seen as a difficult medical disorder by the NHS‚ this is because of how the chemical imbalance is altered as illicit drugs tap into the way the nerve cells communicate. There are two prominent ways in which drugs of abuse and legal drugs affect the brain. The first way is by mimicking the brains natural chemicals. Another way in which the brain can be affected is through the overstimulation of the limbic reward system. The majority of illicit drugs
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several chemicals‚ including one called brain-derived neurotrophic factor‚ or BDNF (Carmichael). The neurotransmitters‚ which are any substance responsible for sending nerve signals across a synapse between two neurons‚ in the body are serotonin and dopamine. With neurotransmission the neurons that are carrying the serotonin and endorphins must connect to a receptor in the brain and transport these chemicals to the brain. Serotonin is a chemical linked
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ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK: USE IN MANAGEMENT Neuron Transfer Function: The transfer function of a neuron is chosen to have a number of properties which either enhance or simplify the network containing the neuron. Crucially‚ for instance‚ any multilayer perceptron using a linear transfer function has an equivalent single-layer network; a non-linear function is therefore necessary to gain the advantages of a multi-layer network. Types of neuron transfer function • Pure Linear Transfer Function
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possible explanation on why the light caused depolarization of the off-center ganglion cell as is shown in Figure 2. This figure‚ confuse students‚ but it gives you the idea on how to approach and answer the question. Firs the circuit is missing neurons‚ and important ones such as on center bipolar and ganglion
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Exercise 3: Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses Worksheet Assignment Due: Week 4 Student instructions: Follow the step-by-step instructions for this exercise found in your text and record your answers in the spaces below. Submit this completed document by the assignment due date found in the Syllabus. Eliciting a Nerve Impulse Activity 1: Electrical Stimulation 1. Do you see any kind of response on the oscilloscope screen? Just a flat line. 2. What was the threshold voltage
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BLUE BRAIN 1. Introduction The name of the world’s first virtual brain. That means a machine that can function as human brain. Computer simulations in neuroscience hold the promise of dramatically enhancing the scientific method by providing a means to test hypotheses using predictive models of complex biological processes where experiments are not feasible. Of course‚ simulations are only as good as the quality of the data and the accuracy of the mathematical abstraction of the biological
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