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Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)<\/div>\n
Presti, David E.<\/div>\n
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Preface: From Molecules to Consciousness<\/div>\n
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Neuroplasticity\u2014<\/div>\n
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the unfathomable complexity of living systems places substantial limits on any sort of seemingly simple explanation.<\/div>\n
1. Origins<\/div>\n
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conspecific.<\/div>\n
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is our<\/div>\n
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The ability to create and deploy powerful weapons, a result of our sophisticated intelligence and ability to understand the world through physical and mathematical reasoning, has formed a deadly marriage with our primal capacity for fear and violence.<\/div>\n
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will adopt the following definition of mind: the collection of mental experiences.<\/div>\n
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By mental experiences I mean our subjective (first-person, internal) experiences, including our thoughts, feelings, perceptions (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile), mental images, and sense of self. The term consciousness is often also used<\/div>\n
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This is the task in psychoanalysis: bringing unconscious things related to one\u2019s behavior into consciousness, into awareness, where they can be subjected to analysis and become amenable to change.<\/div>\n
2. Nervous Systems and Brains<\/div>\n
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Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature) by Ernst Haeckel.<\/div>\n
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Drosophila<\/div>\n
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diencephalon,<\/div>\n
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Andreas Vesalius (1514\u20131564), a physician who lived and taught in Italy. His book was called De Humani Corporis Fabrica, which translates as On the Fabric of the Human Body, and was spectacularly illustrated<\/div>\n
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Figure 2.9. Open human skull with dura intact (left) and with dura peeled back (right), from Andreas Vesalius\u2019s De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543).<\/div>\n
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\u201cI sing the body electric.\u201d<\/div>\n
3. Chemistry and Life<\/div>\n
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One of the beautiful things about the periodic table of chemical elements is that an atom\u2019s position on the table tells us whether it is likely to give up electrons and become a positively charged ion (called a cation) or take on electrons and become a negatively charged ion (called an anion). Elements on the far left side of table will easily give up electrons<\/div>\n
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they form a collection of unreactive gaseous elements called the noble or inert gases.<\/div>\n
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This sharing of electrons between atoms is called a covalent chemical bond.<\/div>\n
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the United States, fluoxetine is associated with the brand name Prozac.<\/div>\n
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Largely from these four elements\u2014carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen\u2014are built the basic structures of an enormous number of biologically interesting molecules.<\/div>\n
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Organic molecules composed solely of carbon and hydrogen are called hydrocarbons.<\/div>\n
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double bond,<\/div>\n
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(polymers)<\/div>\n
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While not the most abundant neurotransmitters in the human brain,<\/div>\n
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So the oxygen atom in water becomes slightly negatively charged and the hydrogen atoms in water become slightly positively charged. This is what is meant by polarity. Polar means separation, and in this case there is a separation of charge between different parts of the water molecule. Water is a polar molecule.<\/div>\n
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hydrogen bonding\u2014the slightly negative oxygen atom of one water molecule is attracted to the slightly positive hydrogen atom of another.<\/div>\n
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In the absence of water, NaCl is an extremely stable structure. However, introduce even a small amount of water and the NaCl will begin to dissolve, that is, fall apart into the water.<\/div>\n
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Below four fundamental types of biological molecules are described: lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids.<\/div>\n
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Lipophilic (lipid loving) is synonymous with hydrophobic. And conversely, lipophobic (lipid fearing) means the same as hydrophilic. Oil and water don\u2019t mix.<\/div>\n
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phospholipids.<\/div>\n
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phosphatidylcholines,<\/div>\n
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This configuration is called a quaternary amine.<\/div>\n
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Indeed, phospholipid bilayers constitute the membranes forming the boundary layers around all cells for all of life on Earth.<\/div>\n
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many ways, these membranes are more like fluids in their properties than they are like solids.<\/div>\n
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So, first, what is an amino acid? In organic chemistry, an amino acid is a molecule that contains both an amine group (\u2013NH2) and a carboxylic acid group (\u2013COOH). The amino acids used as protein building blocks<\/div>\n
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these are termed alpha-amino acids. Here R represents a portion of the molecule<\/div>\n
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polypeptide.<\/div>\n
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Ribosomes<\/div>\n
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cell. Any chain of amino acids is called a polypeptide; if it is more than about forty amino acids long, then it is called a protein. The threshold number for defining when a polypeptide becomes a protein is somewhat arbitrary. Some might say thirty, some fifty.<\/div>\n
4. Genes and the History of Molecular Biology<\/div>\n
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lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids.<\/div>\n
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backstory.<\/div>\n
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5. How Neurons Generate Signals<\/div>\n
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soma,<\/div>\n
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It is analogous to a crowd of thousands of people doing a wave at a sport event.<\/div>\n
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action potential<\/div>\n
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axon hillock<\/div>\n
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Cholesterol is an important component in all lipid bilayer membranes in animals, contributing to the structural integrity and the fluidity<\/div>\n
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components of the neuronal cytoskeleton (see Chapter 10).<\/div>\n
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Insects don\u2019t have myelin, and there are no giant insects in part because it would be difficult to coordinate the synchronous movement of muscles in a large body using more slowly conducting unmyelinated nerves.<\/div>\n
6. Synapses, Neurotransmitters, and Receptors<\/div>\n
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Synapses come in two varieties: electrical and chemical.<\/div>\n
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a gap junction)<\/div>\n
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When the term synapse is used without further qualification, it generally refers to a chemical synapse.<\/div>\n
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SNARE complex,<\/div>\n
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calcium binds to proteins present in the SNARE complex, and a sequence of molecular events results in fusion of the vesicular membrane with the boundary membrane of the axon terminal. The contents of the storage vesicle\u2014the neurotransmitter molecules\u2014then spill into the synaptic cleft. Neurotransmitter release has occurred.<\/div>\n
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If the appropriate neurotransmitter molecule makes contact with the appropriate receptor protein, it sticks, or binds, like a key in a lock.<\/div>\n
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These processes of inactivation\u2014either reuptake or enzymatic\u2014act very rapidly and efficiently to remove neurotransmitters from the synapse.<\/div>\n
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Vagusstoff was later identified to be acetylcholine, the first molecule recognized as a neurotransmitter.<\/div>\n
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ionotropic receptor.<\/div>\n
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The most abundant neurotransmitter molecule in the human brain is glutamic acid, or glutamate.<\/div>\n
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glutamatergic<\/div>\n
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change in membrane potential\u2014most often by way of ionotropic GABA receptors\u2014is called an inhibitory postsynaptic potential, or IPSP. Just<\/div>\n
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To recap:<\/div>\n
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ionotropic<\/div>\n
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metabotropic<\/div>\n
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Here is one summary; consider reading through it as you might a poem on first reading\u2014don\u2019t get caught up in the details . . .<\/div>\n
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Ionotropic receptors<\/div>\n
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Metabotropic receptors<\/div>\n
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metabotropic receptors are generally referred to as G-protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs.<\/div>\n
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Highlighting again the poetic molecular beauty of all this, here is a sonnet, in Shakespearean form\u2014a lyric poem to the GPCR:<\/div>\n
7. Neuroanatomy and Excitability<\/div>\n
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And beyond this, the nervous system is in intimate interaction with the endocrine system, the cardiovascular system, the immune system, and so forth\u2014<\/div>\n
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The word ganglion (plural ganglia) refers to a cluster of nerve cells.<\/div>\n
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When the sympathetic nerve fibers make connections<\/div>\n
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with target tissues\u2014such as the heart, lungs, intestines, bladder, or iris of the eye\u2014the signaling molecule (neurotransmitter) used at those connections is norepinephrine.<\/div>\n
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An agonist is a molecule that binds to a neurotransmitter receptor and activates it.<\/div>\n
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the key-and-lock analogy for a neurotransmitter and its receptor, an agonist is like a second type of key that opens the same lock.<\/div>\n
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An antagonist is a molecule that binds to a neurotransmitter receptor and blocks the action of the neurotransmitter at the receptor.<\/div>\n
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the key-and-lock analogy, an antagonist is like a key that fits into the lock but doesn\u2019t open<\/div>\n
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sympathomimetic<\/div>\n
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parasympatholytic<\/div>\n
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Unlike glutamate and GABA, molecules that are released by billions of neurons as neurotransmitters, acetylcholine is produced and released by a relatively small number of neurons\u2014perhaps a few hundred thousand\u2014clustered into several regions deep in the brain\u2019s interior.<\/div>\n
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molecular precursors<\/div>\n
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group of neurotransmitters in the human brain are the monoamines,<\/div>\n
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dopaminergic<\/div>\n
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dopaminergic brainstem nuclei include the substantia nigra and ventral tegmentum<\/div>\n
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The function of melanin in brain cells (sometimes called neuromelanin) is unknown.<\/div>\n
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neurotransmitters in the human brain may be grouped into several categories.<\/div>\n
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All the known dopamine,<\/div>\n
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receptors are GPCRs.<\/div>\n
8. Poison, Medicine, and Pharmacology<\/div>\n
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That a weird molecule like TTX is found in a number of unrelated animal species suggests it is not synthesized directly by the animals themselves but, rather, may be the product of a microorganism living inside these various animals.<\/div>\n
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There, cells forming the walls of the blood vessels are tightly joined together, with no gaps, no pores, no holes between the cells.<\/div>\n
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Local anesthetics provide yet another example of the effects of altering sodium channels.<\/div>\n
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Several synthetic chemicals have been developed that also act as local anesthetics to numb sensation but do not possess the other CNS and autonomic nervous system effects of cocaine.<\/div>\n
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This results in a reduction<\/div>\n
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in signals from neurons sending sensory information to the brain\u2014the local anesthetic effect.<\/div>\n
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The molecular structure diagrams of these drugs remind us that all these chemicals are composed of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms, hooked together by covalent chemical bonds into specific geometric shapes. The different shapes of the molecules confer upon them their differing pharmacologic properties.<\/div>\n
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The Latin genus for the plant comes from one of the goddess sisters of Greek myth called the Moirai (plural of Greek moira = share, apportion, fate). These sisters are Clotho, who spins the thread of life; Lachesis, who measures out the thread of life; and Atropos, who cuts the thread of life. In English they are called the Fates.<\/div>\n
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The history of drugs is mostly a history of ethnobotany,<\/div>\n
9. Psychoactive Drugs<\/div>\n
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So pervasive is caffeine consumption that we have, to large extent, lost touch with what a powerful stimulant it is.<\/div>\n
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barbiturates,<\/div>\n
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These diverse sedative-hypnotic drugs are all thought to have similar primary neurochemical mechanisms of action in the brain.<\/div>\n
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About a dozen such molecules have now been identified from animals, collectively called endorphins, a word derived from \u201cendogenous\u201d and \u201cmorphine.\u201d<\/div>\n
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These endogenous opioid neurotransmitters were the first of a new class of neurotransmitters\u2014<\/div>\n
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10. Neural Development and Neuroplasticity<\/div>\n
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\u201cjunk DNA\u201d<\/div>\n
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Figuring out the roles of this regulatory RNA is one of the most exciting projects of contemporary molecular biology.<\/div>\n
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neurogeny, that is to the embryonic development of the<\/div>\n
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we are far from understanding the behavioral effects of most drugs\u2014from general anesthetics to stimulants to psychedelics\u2014based on what is currently known about their membrane-receptor neurochemistry.<\/div>\n
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Whatever the details turn out to be, it is likely that the intricate structure of the cellular interior is involved in numerous aspects of the life process\u2014up to and including mind and consciousness\u2014that at this point we have little understanding of.<\/div>\n
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chemoaffinity hypothesis, proposing that nerve cells use specific chemical signals to guide their wiring during development and during neural regeneration.<\/div>\n
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Synapses that are not used are eliminated, a process called synaptic pruning.<\/div>\n
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neuroplasticity.<\/div>\n
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The hippocampus is a bilateral structure located beneath the surface of the temporal lobe known to play a pivotal role in the formation and stabilization of memories<\/div>\n
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Certainly a lesson from neuroscience is that experiences of infancy, childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood are likely the most powerful experiences of one\u2019s life in terms of laying down pathways in the brain that will have lifelong effects on behavior.<\/div>\n
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A society that truly appreciates the importance of brain plasticity during the early years of life would place a very high priority on optimizing early learning.<\/div>\n
11. Sensory Perception<\/div>\n
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Honeybees also have visual capacities that are unusual from a human perspective. Figure 11.5 shows an African daisy (Dimorphotheca aurantiaca) illuminated by sunlight and photographed with a lens that captures only visible light (left) and one that also captures ultraviolet light (right). Honeybee visual sensitivity extends into the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum, a range of energies to which we humans are blind. There is abundant ultraviolet radiation in sunlight, and many flowers have patterns that are visible in ultraviolet light but are not noticeable as any sort of color difference in the visible region of the spectrum. These patterns are sometimes called nectar guides and are believed to act as visual features that attract bees and other pollinating insects and birds to them. Ultraviolet radiation is slightly higher in energy than visible light. The other direction on the electromagnetic spectrum, with radiation slightly lower in energy than visible light, is the infrared region. Infrared radiation also is not visible to us\u2014its energy is too low to activate the photoreceptors in the eye. However, infrared radiation is absorbed by many molecules in such a way as to set them vibrating. This molecular vibratory motion, if it is strong enough, may be experienced as heat.<\/div>\n
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12. Nose and Smell<\/div>\n
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(Epithelium is the name given to the types of cells that line the surfaces of many structures throughout the body.)<\/div>\n
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1651. When we smell the aroma of the spice cinnamon, we are sniffing dozens of different molecules interacting with the 350 different types of olfactory receptor GPCRs in our nasal epithelium.<\/div>\n
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to learn a bunch of different names and structures but to appreciate that plant aromas are composed of dozens of different molecules that we inhale into our noses, which then activate various combinations of olfactory receptor proteins, and that from this our nervous<\/div>\n
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Here are two more molecules that have a stinky quality to them: methanethiol and dimethylsulfide. These molecules are found in the urine of many people who have eaten asparagus and impart a unique stinky aroma to the urine.<\/div>\n
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However, methanethiol and dimethylsulfide are not found in asparagus, either fresh or cooked. They are apparently produced during the digestive chemical transformation of molecules that are found in asparagus, such as asparagusic acid.<\/div>\n
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specific anosmia\u2014<\/div>\n
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Hyperosmias are also possible,<\/div>\n
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same species.<\/div>\n
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my money is on there being chemicals that are sensed by the human olfactory system and that trigger significant behavioral responses, including social attraction and repulsion.<\/div>\n
13. Tongue and Taste<\/div>\n
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Max Delbr\u00fcck, in another context, coined the phrase \u201cprinciple of limited sloppiness\u201d to describe situations in experimental research where unexpected discoveries are made because a scientist is a little sloppy, but not so sloppy that he or she can\u2019t figure out what has happened.<\/div>\n
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delicious (umai) and taste (mi).<\/div>\n
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Thus, the umami taste may have developed over the course of evolution to assist in the detection of protein-containing foods, important for survival.<\/div>\n
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The pungent or hot qualities of these plants are associated with molecular components that activate various receptors in the mouth. However, signals from these receptors enter the brain via pathways different from those associated with the primary tastes. They enter via the fifth cranial nerve (trigeminal nerve) and are received by regions of the brain closely associated with the perception of<\/div>\n
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Chili is experienced as \u201chot\u201d because actual heat\u2014that is, increases in temperature\u2014is sensed by exactly the same molecular and cellular mechanism!<\/div>\n
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menthol. Menthol is appreciated for its distinctive flavor qualities, including producing a perception of a kind of \u201ccoolness.\u201d<\/div>\n
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pepper, but not the same, is the pungency of mustard, horseradish, and wasabi. Associated with this particular perceptual quality of hotness is a family of molecules, the isothiocyanates,<\/div>\n
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14. Eyes and Vision<\/div>\n
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Colors do not exist \u201cout there\u201d in the world\u2014they are mental experiences related in some still mysterious way to how our nervous system responds to electromagnetic radiation having different energies.<\/div>\n
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This may be akin to the idea that aspects of contrast, shading, and texture may be better represented in black-and-white photography and cinematography than in the color versions.<\/div>\n
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and the origin of the metaphor of the blind spot: an area of one\u2019s knowledge, belief, or behavior in which there is some significant ignorance to which one is oblivious.<\/div>\n
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If the lesion is small, the scotoma may not even be noticeable to the patient, unless careful testing is conducted. If the lesion is sufficiently large, then the patient will experience an absence of information from part<\/div>\n
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of visual space. A large lesion might completely damage all of V1 in one hemisphere of the cortex, resulting in complete loss of vision for an entire half of the visual field, the half of visual space contralateral to the side of the brain in which the lesion is located. The clinical term to describe this is hemianopsia, meaning loss of vision in one half of visual space.<\/div>\n
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Sustaining a lesion in this area may bring on a clinical condition called prosopagnosia (Greek prosopon = face), in which the person has great difficulty or even a complete loss of ability to recognize faces. This is a very specific symptom; other aspects of visual perception remain intact.<\/div>\n
15. Ears and Hearing<\/div>\n
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Time will tell whether the vastly increased use of portable music players will lead to an increase in the prevalence of early-onset hearing loss.<\/div>\n
17. Imaging the Brain<\/div>\n
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A brain tumor is an anomalous, abnormal proliferation of cells in the brain. Such anomalous growth may be either benign (nonspreading) or malignant (able to metastasize and spread); the latter type of tumor has a much poorer prognosis.<\/div>\n
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One of the best-studied examples is Parkinson\u2019s disease, a neurodegenerative condition characterized by slowness and difficulty with movement. Parkinson\u2019s disease is associated with neuronal death in a specific region of the brain: the substantia nigra, one of the clusters of cells in the brainstem that uses dopamine as a neurotransmitter.<\/div>\n
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MRI uses not x-rays to penetrate the skull and other tissue but an entirely different process. It is based on a mysterious physical phenomenon called quantum spin.<\/div>\n
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Figure 17.2 MRI of a human brain.<\/div>\n
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or EEG. A graph of brain electric field changes as a function of time is called an electroencephalogram, sometimes referred to as a brain wave.<\/div>\n
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The magnetic fields associated with neural activity in the human brain measure about 1 picotesla (10\u201312 tesla) at the surface of the skull. This is a very small amplitude\u2014Earth\u2019s magnetic field, approximately 50 microteslas (50 \u00d7 10\u20136 tesla), is about fifty million times stronger. Ambient magnetic noise in an urban environment (due primarily to electricity moving through power lines and other wiring) is in the range of 0.1 microtesla<\/div>\n
18. Connectivity, Language, and Meaning<\/div>\n
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that no neuron in the human brain is more than a very small number of synapses away from every other neuron in the brain.<\/div>\n
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Prosopagnosia,<\/div>\n
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Cell layers in the human cerebral cortex made visible using Nissl stain (left), a dye that colors cell bodies but not axons and dendrites, and Golgi stain (right), which stains only a small fraction of the neurons but stains the axons and dendrites as well as the cell bodies. Drawings by Ram\u00f3n y Cajal.<\/div>\n
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Such an aphasia of language production is often associated with lesions in the left frontal premotor area of the brain, a region called Broca\u2019s area<\/div>\n
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Wernicke\u2019s aphasia is a sensory agnosia specific to language.<\/div>\n
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twilight car hill frosted gasoline does remarkable planetary hum pizza.<\/div>\n
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Since its inception in 1949, the Wada test for the lateralization of language has been administered to thousands of patients as a prelude to brain surgery.<\/div>\n
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For non-right-handed (meaning left-handed and ambidextrous) people, approximately 70 percent have left-hemisphere language dominance, 15 percent have right-hemisphere language<\/div>\n
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Wernicke\u2019s area may be considered a secondary or higher-order auditory area, involved in analysis of sounds with language-like properties.<\/div>\n
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Neurons in Broca\u2019s area are in fact premotor mirror neurons, active when observing (reading, listening, and understanding) language, as well as when generating (writing and speaking) language.<\/div>\n
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anosognosia<\/div>\n
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The functions between the two hemispheres are not completely separated; it\u2019s just that one hemisphere is more involved than the other for certain tasks.<\/div>\n
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as neural correlates of consciousness (NCC).<\/div>\n
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Thus, it is not straightforward to ask and obtain an answer to a question of the form: does the nonspeaking right hemisphere of a split-brain patient exhibit consciousness awareness? Or, more generally, is a patient in a coma or vegetative state consciously aware? What about when asleep, or while sedated by general anesthesia?<\/div>\n
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The human cerebral cortex\u2014if it were to be unfolded, smoothing out all the gyri and sulci\u2014is approximately 2.5 square feet, or 2,300 square centimeters, about the size of a circular pizza 21 inches in diameter.<\/div>\n
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neuropil<\/div>\n
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The notion that we will be able to figure out the human brain by mapping the locations of all the cells and all of their connections, and perhaps even construct a kind of replica using integrated circuits, vastly underestimates the nuance and complexity of what is going on.<\/div>\n
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Nonetheless, what is going on within the unfathomable complexity of neuropil, while intuitively graspable, is beyond detailed description within of our current understanding of neurophysiology.<\/div>\n
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brains are not \u201clike\u201d any artificial machine. If anything, they are \u201clike\u201d natural self-organizing processes such as stars and hurricanes. With the guidance and constraint of genes, they create and maintain their structures while exchanging matter and energy with their surrounds.<\/div>\n
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Freeman proposes that cerebrocortical neuropil may be described at the neurodynamic level as a uniquely unified system capable of undergoing something like \u201cphase transitions\u201d into states of global cooperativity,<\/div>\n
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These states of global cooperative synchrony are the neural correlates of consciousness.<\/div>\n
19. Memory<\/div>\n
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Pathological memory problems are called amnesias, which come in two major categories: retrograde and anterograde.<\/div>\n
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One particular benzodiazepine, midazolam (Versed), is sometimes given in conjunction with medical procedures in which the patient is only partially anesthetized.<\/div>\n
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declarative and nondeclarative. Declarative memories can be brought to mind in words or describable images. This includes facts and other informational-type knowledge (semantic memory), as well as specific time-and-place events from one\u2019s experience (episodic memory).<\/div>\n
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Advertising\u2019s goal is that we learn and remember, without being aware that we are learning and remembering. In simple laboratory experiments, H.M. showed evidence of priming.<\/div>\n
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is, repeated activation of a network strengthens the synaptic connections within the network. Sometimes this is referred to as a Hebbian network.<\/div>\n
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reuptake<\/div>\n
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Hebbian networks. Thus, all past experience plays an essential role in determining the patterns<\/div>\n
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Meaning is a whole-body experience, and its foundation is memory.<\/div>\n
20. Rhythms, Sleep, and Dreams<\/div>\n
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the biological clock\u2014<\/div>\n
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suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN.<\/div>\n
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14). The axon tract connecting these ganglion cells with the SCN is called the retinal-hypothalamic pathway,<\/div>\n
21. Emotion<\/div>\n
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Charles Darwin was a pioneer in the science of emotion. His book on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was published in 1872,<\/div>\n
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In the 1960s, the constructivist versus evolutionary perspective on emotion was tested by Paul Ekman (b. 1934), who compared the interpretation of facial expressions across different cultures.<\/div>\n
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Darwin\u2019s discussion of human facial expressions drew upon the work of French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne (1806\u20131875), who studied the muscular control of facial expressions by selectively activating specific muscles using direct electrical stimulation.<\/div>\n
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The amygdala is also involved in signaling the hypothalamus to initiate a cascade of events that forms part of the body\u2019s response to stressful events.<\/div>\n
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There has even been some exploration of these neuropeptides as drugs to increase prosocial behaviors in individuals suffering from conditions in which social connection is impaired\u2014autistic spectrum disorders, depression, and schizophrenia, for example.<\/div>\n
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best-known reward circuit involves dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area projecting to the nucleus accumbens and the medial prefrontal cortex (Fig. 21.5).<\/div>\n
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euphorigenic<\/div>\n
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If one becomes stuck for a prolonged period of time (weeks, months, or more) in a mood state that significantly interferes with one\u2019s ability to function and flourish in life, one is said to have a mood disorder.<\/div>\n
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This came to be called the amine hypothesis of depression.<\/div>\n
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serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).<\/div>\n
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Thorazine.<\/div>\n
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all had in common was antagonist action at dopamine receptors.<\/div>\n
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antidepressant medications, antipsychotic drugs currently generate billions of dollars per year in sales. Few would have predicted that psychiatric medications would become the economic juggernaut they are today?<\/div>\n
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While it may be the case that certain drugs facilitate changes in neural connections by perturbing brain physiology, real transformation comes from intention, action, and practice.<\/div>\n
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Darwin, in fact, was very much an advocate of goodness, compassion, and sympathy as important forces in human evolution\u2014a kind of survival of the kindest. This he makes clear in his first book specifically about human evolution\u2014The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex\u2014published in 1871,<\/div>\n
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Although it is true that human conflict is pervasive, humans also have highly refined emotional abilities to preempt and to resolve conflict. We excel at laughter, play, love, gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness. We are experts at cooperating with our fellow beings.<\/div>\n
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22. Mind, Consciousness, and Reality<\/div>\n
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Intelligence is from the Latin intelligentum, meaning to discern or comprehend, from inter + legere, to choose or pick out, from or between.<\/div>\n
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This is what is called reductionism\u2014biology is explained in terms of (that is, reduced to) what is considered to be the more basic science of chemistry, and chemistry is understood in terms of the fundamental rules of matter and energy as described by physics, and physics is grounded in elegant mathematical structures and equations.<\/div>\n
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The transition from a superposition of potentialities to a discrete value is called a \u201creduction\u201d or \u201ccollapse\u201d of the wave function. It defines the connection between the microscopic quantum world of potentialities and the macroscopic classical world of our experience.<\/div>\n
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Does it mean that mathematical notions somehow exist as an intrinsic part of the foundation of reality? Are numbers\u2014zero to infinity, real and imaginary, discrete and continuous\u2014examples of what is really real, the \u201cideal forms\u201d posited by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (about 427\u2013347 B.C.E.)? Or is mathematics, from<\/div>\n
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the simple to the profoundly esoteric, solely a product of human cognition\u2014our concept of numbers, ability to carry out mathematical operations, and capacity to formulate and discover mathematical truths (such as \u201c\u03c0 is an irrational number,\u201d \u201cthere is no largest prime number,\u201d or \u201cxn + yn = zn has no integer solutions x, y, z for any integer value of n > 2\u201d)\u2014directly related to biological evolution of our cognitive capacities and nothing more?<\/div>\n
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This could give rise over time to the formation of stabilized, energy-using, replicating systems\u2014life as we know<\/div>\n
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(How subjectivity is related to the physical workings of the brain and body is sometimes called the hard problem of<\/div>\n
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consciousness research. It is also referred to as the explanatory gap between the physical and the subjective.)<\/div>\n
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2. Refined analysis of mental experience, drawing from the tools of contemplative traditions, and in particular the current dialogue between science and Buddhism<\/div>\n
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neuromorphic computers.<\/div>\n
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We fantasize about communicating with aliens from another star system. Perhaps we ought also work on communicating with the likely very sentient and very intelligent aliens among us.<\/div>\n
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one scenario (due to Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff) posits that subcellular structures such as microtubules may be information storage and computational devices, with aspects of their component tubulin structures acting something like information bits in a computer.<\/div>\n
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The faculty of bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. . . . An education which should improve this faculty<\/div>\n
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would be the education par excellence. But it is easier to define this ideal than to give practical directions for bringing it about.<\/div>\n
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physical science, interconnecting the two domains in new and unexpected ways. This would be a truly revolutionary development in science, on par with the greatest scientific revolutions<\/div>\n
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Notes<\/div>\n
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Nagel (1974).<\/div>\n
References<\/div>\n
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Nagel, T. (1974). What is like to be a bat? Philosophical Review, 83, 435\u2013450.<\/div>\n
Index<\/div>\n
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