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Which direction do action potentials travel along the corticospinal tract?

Neurons located in this brain area send nerve impulses to spinal cord motor neurons that control skeletal muscles:

This part of the eye receives light from the outside and directs it through the pupil.

Which type of channel action would you expect to be hyperpolarizing on a postsynaptic membrane?

When an inhibitory neurotransmitter binds its receptor on the postsynaptic neuron:

Nerves contain no connective tissues.

Which of these is not a structure or region of the brain?

Which of the indicated brain regions is most responsible for receiving and processing visual information?

Nicotinic and muscarinic receptors both bind to the same neurotransmitter but can trigger very different responses.

This part of the brain helps you recall past memories of sounds so you can identify noises: