NEUROBIOLOGY Molecules, Cells and SystemsGary G. Matthews
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Part V
Find images, movies, and other information about growth cones and how they move. In the images you find, identify the filopdia and lamellipodia
Investigate fruit fly mutants that affect learning and memory and describe the role of cyclic AMP in those mutations.
Investigate how fMRI works.
Neuronal Plasticity and Higher Cortical Function
Assignment 1 (Chapter 19)
Growth cones are the motile ends of growing neurites.
Assignment 2 (Chapter 20)
Use anatomical resources to view the location of the hippocampus in mammalian brains.
Assignment 3 (Chapter 20)
Cyclic AMP plays an important role in the long-term modification of reflexes in Aplysia. Evidence from Drosophila mutants also suggests a role for cyclic AMP and its signaling partners in learning.
Assignment 4 (Chapter 21)
Locate the following language areas in the human brain using on-line images and brain atlases:
Assignment 5 (Chapter 21)
Functional MRI (fMRI) is being used to study a variety of brain functions in normal human subjects.
Find fMRI images related to language function.
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