• Reticular theory is an obsolete scientific theory in neurobiology that stated that everything in the nervous system, such as the brain, is a single continuous...
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    The reticular formation is a set of interconnected nuclei in the brainstem that spans from the lower end of the medulla oblongata to the upper end of...
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    nerve processes. This was due to his strong conviction in the reticular theory. Golgi's theory was challenged by Ramón y Cajal, who used the same technique...
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    individual nerve cells. Golgi refused to accept the neuron theory and hung on to the reticular theory. Golgi and Ramón y Cajal were jointly awarded the 1906...
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    nerve cells was not continuous, or a single system as per then extant reticular theory, but rather contiguous; there were gaps between neurons. This provided...
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  • cells or neurons as suggested by a theory called the neuron doctrine. Golgi strongly advocated the reticular theory such that even his Nobel lecture was...
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    histological stain. Along with Camillo Golgi, he was a major proponent of the reticular theory that the brain's nervous system consisted of processes of contiguous...
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  • 'Orch OR' theory"". Physics of Life Reviews. Elsevier. 11 (1): 104–112. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2013.11.014. Min, B. K. (2010). A thalamic reticular networking...
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    function. The work effectively resolved the debate between neuron and reticular theory in mammals, thereby shaping our understanding of the central nervous...
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    PMC 6935745. PMID 31844876. Cajal, S. Ramón y. (1954) Neuron theory or reticular theory: Objective evidence of the anatomical unity of nerve cells.Transl...
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  • genetic factors. In particular, the three-factor model identifies the reticular system and the limbic system in the brain as key components that mediate...
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    stimulated to a point of perception. It involves activation of the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) in the brain, which mediates wakefulness, the...
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  • devoting attention may be neurobiologically accomplished by ascending reticular activating systems (ARAS) optimizing the “gain” of prediction error units...
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  • been worthy of winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology for discovering the reticular activating system along with Horace Winchell (Tid) Magoun and Giuseppe...
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    international distinction. See also main article on reticular materials Yaghi pioneered reticular chemistry, a new field of chemistry concerned with stitching...
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  • personality traits. Eysenck linked Extraversion to activation of the ascending reticular activating system, an area of the brain which regulates sleep and arousal...
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  • (1968), Mesarović, M. D. (ed.), "Some Mechanisms for a Theory of the Reticular Formation", Systems Theory and Biology, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg...
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    physiological responses to stress and panic. It is a part of the reticular activating system in the reticular formation. The locus coeruleus, which in Latin means...
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    Braak staging (redirect from Braak's theory)
    characterized by additional lesions in the raphe nuclei and gigantocellular reticular nucleus of the medulla oblongata. The disease then moves up the brainstem...
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  • extraversion are a result of differences in sensitivity of the ascending reticular activating system. People with less sensitive systems are not easily aroused...
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    the ascending retinal ganglion cells via the optic tract and from the reticular activating system. Neurons of the LGN send their axons through the optic...
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  • destruction in substantia nigra in the midbrain, and discovery of the reticular activating system, which are visual cues received through our eyes and...
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    Cross-link (redirect from Reticular)
    theoretical degree of crosslinking can be calculated according to Flory's Network Theory. Two ASTM standards are commonly used to describe the degree of crosslinking...
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    Eysenck associated cortical inhibition and excitation with the ascending reticular activation system (ARAS), a pathway located in the brainstem. Extraverts...
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    the medial column of reticular formation nuclei (magnocellular nuclei and reticular nuclei of pontine tegmentum). The reticular activating system begins...
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  • coeruleus (LC) noradrenergic system. Both regions are components of the reticular activating system (RAS). The basal forebrain cholinergic system is associated...
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  • Scientific research has discovered that some areas of the brain, like the reticular activating system or the thalamus, appear to be necessary for consciousness...
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    Lebrilla CB (2015). "Glycans in the immune system and The Altered Glycan Theory of Autoimmunity". J Autoimmun. 57 (6): 1–13. doi:10.1016/j.jaut.2014.12...
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    Pain (redirect from Gate theory of pain)
    paleospinothalamic fibers peel off in the brain stem—connecting with the reticular formation or midbrain periaqueductal gray—and the remainder terminate...
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    1103/PhysRevLett.82.3180. S2CID 119398712. Humphries MD (2006). "The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network". Proceedings of the...
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