Tag: neuroscience college class
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Resting Potential and Starting an Action Potential

Somehow, by the grace of God, I’m still a neuroscience major. But even now, I’m still racked with some pretty basic questions about the nervous system. How does your body alert your brain of the outside world? How do electrical impulses in the brain cause movement, thought, and emotion? Honestly, scientists still don’t really know.…
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NEUR100: Neurons are specialized cells

Only so long ago, (ie January) I started my Neuro100 class with the wonderful Professor Wasserman as our guide. If there’s anything I’ve learn in these three months, it’s that everything we want to know and ever have known was because someone asked a question. In a lot of my future science blogs, many of…
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Compare and Constrast: Improving 1st Year Science Paper

In this blog post I will go over the typical format of a first year scientific paper. This sort of paper includes only a short introduction, a figure, and a results ‘paragraph’. A ‘paragrapgh’ can be anything from a couple of sentences to a page and a half long and drescibes the methods of your…