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What is the original name for the field which involves the study of the physiology of behaviour?
Physiological Psychology
A key difference between the brain and the computer is that …
Computers are serial devices
If you took a second to count every neuron in an average human brain, how long would it take you to approximately count them all?
3000 years (there are about 100 billion neurons)
The connected series of fluid-filled cavities that are found throughout the brain are known as the …
Ventricles
During the course of evolution there has been a general increase in the …
Size of the brain, number of convolutions, size of the cerebral cortex (all of the above)
The ___ is the main part of the neuron that contains the most neurotransmitter receptors, and the ___ is the main conductor of the action potential along the neuron’s length
Dendrite, Axon
The person who discovered the chemical basis of neurotransmission was …
Otto Loewi
