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Enigmatic picture of an axon
Your belief is wrong; axons form synapses along their lengths. I'm most familiar with these being referred to as en passant boutons. See for example this image and description from: https://synapseweb....
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Does communication with new parts of body requires internal changes in brain?
I think you'd benefit from reading about the concept of "critical periods" - basically, at different times during development, the brain is learning specific tasks, associating sensory ...
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Can Neurons be connected in Series and will that pattern create huge voltage in human body?
In a typical nervous system, no, that's not how neurons are connected at all. Neurons have a voltage across their membrane, a potential difference inside versus outside of the cell. A "connection&...
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Nernst Equation and Membrane Potential
Are you just counting up the potassium ions and subtracting them? Don't do that! That's not how it works. Potassium ions don't just exist by themselves, they come paired with negative ions of some ...
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What is a polar plot of relative neural firing
If you map every spike of a neuron to the phase of an oscillatory process (in your case a 12 Hz sine wave) then you can plot an histogram of that phases. It's usual to plot the histogram in polar ...
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What makes dopaminergic neurons fire when maintaining base dopamine levels?
The brain is very "noisy". Neurons in an actual brain don't just sit around waiting for an external stimulus. The "resting potential" of a neuron in a dish is not very ...
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Why doesn't treating neurons with a high sodium solution depolarize their membranes?
I would start with the Goldman equation, plug in some reasonable values and experiment with the results. Your reasoning I think comes from a common misconception that involves counting positive ...
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What is the evidence that women experience a larger cortisol spike than men, when they see domestic clutter?
I linked to the paper above in a comment.
I'm not a behavioral scientist. So interpret with a grain of salt.
The study analyzes language used after tours of homes, to evaluate how stressful the homes ...
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