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Neuroscience is Born!
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Computation in the Brain - Part 1
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Three parts
- 3 Neuroscience: the origins Alcmaeon of Croton 520 BC.
- 4 Neuroscience Timeline (cont.) L. Galvani 1760
- 5 Neuroscience is Born!
- 6 1932: C. Sherrington: the synapse
- 7 Plasticity!
- 8 1936: H. Dale and O. Loewi: neurotransmitters • The chemical language of neurons
- 9 Neurotransmitters: many kinds (from Wikipedia)
- 10 1970: Katz, von Euler, Axelrod: synaptic vesicles
- 11 1991: Neher - Sakmann; 2000: Carlsson, Greengard, Kandel: ion channels
- 12 1963: Eccles, Hodgkin, Huxley: the spike
- 13 The spike, how?
- 14 1981: Sperry, Hubel, and Wiesel: vision
- 15 The Hubel - Wiesel conjecture: simple cells
- 16 The Hubel - Wiesel conjecture: complex cells
- 17 David Marr (1945 – 1980) and the genesis of computational neuroscience
- 18 2006: R. Axel and L. Buck: olfaction
- 19 OK, the parts of the brain
- 20 Btw, parts of the brain?
- 21 Parts of the brain names: Bones of the skull
- 22 Parts of the brain names: directions
- 23 (Cerebral) Cortex: the engine
- 24 Place cells
- 25 Grid cells
