Lecture 9 of 34Week 1
Homunculus
Prof. Nitin Gupta · IIT Kanpur
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- Historical perspective
- Recent history
- An evolutionary perspective
- Methods in Neuroscience
- Types of cells in the brain
- Parts of Nervous System
- Brain Orientations
- Parts of Brain
- Homunculus
- Origin of electrical activity in the brain
- Basic electrical properties of neurons
- Capacitance in neurons
- Membrane potential
- Time constant of the membrane
- Length constant
- Equilibrium potential
- Equilibrium potentials of different ions
- GHK equation for membrane potential
- Ion Channels
- Active conductances
- Voltage Clamp
- Action Potentials
- Properties of action potentials
- Introduction to synapses
- Electrical synapses (gap junctions)
- Chemical Synapses
- Properties of chemical synapses
- Synaptic Integration
- Sensory Systems
- Tuning Curves, Receptive Fields, Sensory threshold
- Holistic visual perception
- Olfaction (sense of smell)
- Insect olfactory system
- Vertebrate olfactory system