Category Archives: Seriously! The Brain!

WIP Wednesday: Saturday Edition

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Kate

And, that is just the left side of the brain and it isn’t even all of the details! Seriously! The Brain!

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Seriously! The Brain!: Neurotransmitters

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Kate

    As promised last week, this week we’re going to take a look at some of the neurotransmitters that neurons use to excite and inhibit their neighbors. We’re only going to look at the big ones, the ones that … Continue reading →

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Seriously! The Brain!: The internal anatomy of a neuron

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Kate

So, I talked about neurons in the first two posts, one of them things like how long they are and how there are dendrites and axons. I talked about how long they could be. And, in the last post I … Continue reading →

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Seriously! The Brain!: Message Received

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Kate

As promised a month ago, today’s post is going to be about how a neuron sends and receives messages. When I sat through this lecture last semester, I was awed by this whole process. You want to talk about a … Continue reading →

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Seriously! The Brain! 1: The Neuron

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Kate

There are two types of cells in the central nervous system neurons and neuroglia. Today I will be writing about the neuron, the most well known of the two types of neurons. I will start with the anatomy of a … Continue reading →

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