neurophysiology
Noun
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The branch of neuroscience that studies the physiology of the nervous system (synset 106091190)
associated with:
- all-or-none law - (neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus
- brain wave, brainwave, cortical potential - (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
- facilitation - (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential
is a type of:- physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms
- neuroscience - the scientific study of the nervous system
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