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Parent topics
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. [e]
Subtopics
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Cerebellum [r]: The small brain — a part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. [e]
- Spinal chord [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neural crest [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neuron [r]: An excitable cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses. [e]
- Neuroanatomy [r]: The branch of anatomy that studies the anatomical organization of the nervous system. [e]
- Cerebrospinal fluid [r]: The liquid in which the central nervous system is embedded. [e]
- Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. [e]
- Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. [e]
- Grey matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue that contains few myelinated axons but the somas of nerve cells, as well as glia and endothelial structures. [e]
- White matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue whose volume is dominated by myelinated axons of nerve cells. [e]
- Peripheral nervous system [r]: The part of the nervous system consisting of the nerves and neurons that reside or extend outside the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to serve the limbs and organs. [e]
- Acetaminophen [r]: An analgesic antipyretic drug widely used for the treatment of headaches, fever and other minor aches and pains; has no antiinflammatory activity [e]
- Acetylcholinesterase [r]: An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of acetylcholine to choline and acetate, causing muscles, ennervated by cholinergic receptors, to relax [e]
- Acetylcholine [r]: A chemical transmitter in both the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS) in many organisms including humans. [e]
- Aminoglycoside [r]: Antibiotics class that contain an amino sugar and amino- or guanido-substituted inositol rings attached to hexose. [e]
- Amphetamine [r]: A synthetic central nervous system stimulant which is used, today, to treat limited medical disorders. [e]
- Angiotensin [r]: Oligopeptides which are important in the regulation of blood pressure (vasoconstriction) and fluid homeostasis via the renin-angiotensin system. These include angiotensins derived naturally from precursor angiotensinogen, and those synthesized. [e]
- Antidepressant [r]: Mood-stimulating drugs used primarily in the treatment of affective disorders and related conditions. [e]
- Anxiety [r]: A physiological state marked by demonstrable changes in cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. [e]
- Arrhythmia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ataxia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Atenolol [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Autism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain development [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain evolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Child-Pugh Score [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Circulatory system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Connexin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Decerebrate rigidity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Decorticate rigidity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Delusion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Depression [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Franz Joseph Gall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Haloperidol [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Headache [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hepatic encephalopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Histamine antagonist [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Histamine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human spine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hypothalamus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infant colic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infection [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Japanese encephalitis virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Medication [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Methamphetamine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Myelin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neurology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neuropathic pain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oxytocin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pain physiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pannexin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Prolactin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sedative [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Serotonin syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stroke [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Synapse [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trypanosoma brucei [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Venereal disease [r]: Add brief definition or description