FoundationalConceptsNeuroscience

photoreceptor cells
human retina, 159, 160f
retina, 167-68
phototaxis, 126
phototropism, Phycomyces sporangiophores, 126, 127f
Phyllobates terribilis, 90
physicalism, 259
physical materialism, 259
physics
and consciousness, 263-64
quantum mechanics, 38-39, 256
pi, 220
pia mater, 12
pigeon, navigation by, 134-35
Pimenta officinalis, 141
pinna, ear, 177, 179f
piperine, 140
Piper nigrum, 140, 140f, 155
planarian nervous system, 9f
Planck, Max, 38, 39
Plato, 257
pneumococcal bacteria, 42
poison, 86-90
atropine, 92-95
batrachotoxins (BTXs), 90-91
curares, 92
saxitoxin (STX), 89-90
tetrodotoxin (TTX), 86-91
polar, 28
polarity, 28, 29
polarization, electromagnetic radiation, 131-32
polymers, 25
polypeptide, 33, 82