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15 Cards in this Set
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Galvani
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1790 suggested the brain worked electrically; used frog leg and brass bar
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Volta
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1800 made 1st wet cell bateries; stimulated frog legs with bateries
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du Bois Reymond
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1849; first to measure electricity in a living nerve
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von Hemholz
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1850 measured rate of conduction
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conduction velocity
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50 m/s
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Camillo Golgi
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1900; invented stain to actually visualize neural system; reticular (net) theory
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reticular (net) theory
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the belief that during development all the neurons were fused together
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Cajal
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neuron doctrine
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neuron doctrine
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all neurons are located very close to eachother; however, they don't touch as Golgi believed
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Sherrington
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synapse; mechanism of reflex
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Bernard
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curare; suggested that there were CHEMICAL messengers in the blood
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Dale
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Suggested acetylcholine acts as neurotransmitter on frog's heart
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Loewe
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showed that acetylcholine is, in fact, released from nerve innervating frog's heart
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Hebb
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Hebbian synapses; synaptic mechanism of learning
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Hebb's postulate of learning
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cells that fire together, wire together
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