Neurosciences: Physiology
Neurosciences: Physiology — Expert Atlas
How it begins
Estudio exhaustivo de la fisiología neuronal, transmisión sináptica, vías sensoriales y motoras, neurotransmisores, funciones superiores y neuroplasticidad — con correlaciones clínicas de alta relevancia
What it covers
- Organization of the Nervous System
- · Anatomical and Functional Division
- · Cells of the Nervous System
- Physiology of the Neuronal Membrane
- · 1.1 Resting Membrane Potential
- · 1.2 Ion Channels
- · 1.3 Action Potential (AP)
- · 1.4 Nervous Impulse Conduction
- · 1.5 Postsynaptic Potentials — PPSE and PPSI
- Synaptic Transmission
- · 2.1 The Chemical Synapse
- · 2.2 Postsynaptic Density and Receptors
- · 2.3 Synaptic Plasticity — LTP and LTD
- · 2.4 Electrical Synapse — Gap Junctions
- Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators
- · 3.1 Excitatory Amino Acids — Glutamate
- · 3.2 Inhibitory Amino Acids — GABA and Glycine
- · 3.3 Catecholamines
- · 3.4 Acetylcholine (ACh)
- · 3.5 Neuropeptides and Other Modulators
- Sensory Physiology
- · 4.1 Principles of Sensory Transduction
- · 4.2 Ascending Somatosensory Pathways
- · 4.3 Physiology of Pain
- Physiology of the Motor System
- · 5.1 The Motor Unit
- · 5.2 Spinal Reflexes
- · 5.3 Motor Cortex
- · 5.4 Basal Ganglia — Circuits and Function
- · 5.5 Cerebellum
- Autonomous Nervous System
- · 6.1 General Organization of the SNA
- · 6.2 Key Autonomic Reflexes
- · 6.3 Enteric Nervous System (ENS)
- Higher Functions of the CNS
- · 7.1 Cerebral Cortex — Organization and Areas
- · 7.2 Language — Broca and Wernicke Areas
- · 7.3 Memory — Types and Neural Circuits
- · 7.4 Sleep Physiology
- · 7.5 Consciousness — Neural Substrates
- Neuroplasticity
- · 8.1 Forms of Neuroplasticity
- · 8.2 Neurogenesis in Adults
- · 8.3 Cortical Reorganization — Plasticity of the Somatosensory Map
- · 8.4 Neurotrophic Factors
- Integrative Clinical-Physiopathological Correlations
- · 9.1 Epilepsy — Pathophysiology
- · 9.2 Alzheimer's disease — Pathophysiology
- · 9.3 Schizophrenia — Dopaminergic and Glutamatergic Hypotheses
- · 9.4 EEG and Brain Oscillations
- · 9.5 Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)
- · Integrating Principle
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- Subject
- Physiology
- Category
- Basic Sciences
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 52
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02