cerebral

Stem cell

...a so that the surgeons can monitor how the lack of cerebral oxygen is affecting the patient. The heart is then restarted and incisions closed. The procedure is minimally invasive, as far as heart surgeries are concerned. All of the patients that received the new treatment experienced repaired scar tissue a...

Neuroscience

... visual perception , up to large systems like the cerebral cortex or the cerebellum , and at the highest level the nervous system as a whole. At this highest level, neuroscientific approaches combine with cognitive science to create cognitive neuroscience , a discipline first populated mostly by cogn...

Muscle

...ups along the primary motor area of the brain's cerebral cortex . Commands are routed though the basal ganglia and are modified by input from the cerebellum before being relayed through the pyramidal tract to the spinal cord and from there to the motor end plate at the muscles. Along the way, fee...

Homunculus

...ive sensory space our body parts represent on the cerebral cortex . The lips, hands, feet and sex organs are ...was really an android from the future, with the cerebral cortex of a pig . In many Role-playing games , a Homunculus is a artificial creature that can ...

Brain

...e characterized by increasing complexity in the cerebral cortex as one moves up the phylogenetic and ev...re the mass changes in electrical current from the cerebral cortex, but can only detect changes over large areas of the brain and very little sub-cortical activ...

Biological psychology

...e of the brain , from neurotransmitters to the cerebral cortex to treat their patients. Others may use this knowledge to search for biological causes for common mental illnesses, such as depression and schizophrenia . Many psychologists focus largely on the mental processes of their patients. Biol...