Glossary

Here you will find all the key concepts and notions of neuroscience. An essential resource for those who would like to better understand the brain and how it works!

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Disease: Impairment of the health and functions of living organisms, particularly when the cause is known.

Bacteria :: Microscopic living organisms (microorganisms), most often unicellular, of spherical forms (shells), elongated or rod-shaped forms (bacilli).
Basal ganglia :: The basal ganglia form the deep structures of the brain.
Bioinformatics :: A scientific domain that includes all the computer systems that store and process data from biological research.
Biostatistics :: The scientific process of analyzing data from biological research using statistical tools.
Black substance :: Structure attached to the basal ganglia, rich in dopaminergic neurons.
Booba-kiki (effect) :: The “booba-kiki” effect characterizes the association between the visual form and the pronunciation of the name we might give it.
Brain :: The part of the central nervous system in the braincase.
Brain Hemisphere :: Right or left parts of the brain.
Brain Imaging :: Means all medical imaging techniques that can be used to observe the brain (MRI, Scanner, EEG, MEG-EEG, etc.).
Brain Lobes :: Subregions of the brain.
Brain mapping :: Localization of different brain regions.
Brain stem :: Structure linking the brain and the spinal cord.