FoundationalConceptsNeuroscience

Turing, Alan, 254

ultrasound, 132-33
ultraviolet radiation, 129, 130-31
umami taste, 152-53
understanding, 254
unsaturated lipid, 31
uranium, 207

vagal tone, 245
vagus nerve, 73, 78, 244-45
Vagusstoff, 65
vascular dementia, 223
vasopressin, 82, 246-47, 248f
ventral tegmental area (ventral tegmentum), 81f, 209, 248, 249f
vertigo, 185
Vesalius, Andreas, 11-12, 12f, 13f
vestibular system, 185-86
viruses, 42
visible light, 158
vision
color, 160
color blindness, 161-62
cone opsins, 159-62, 164f, 164-66
genetic variation in color, 161-63
human brain, 169-70, 170f
human eye, 158-59, 159f
human males and females, 161
night devices, 131
opsin proteins, 160-61
receptive field, 168, 170
rhodopsin, 159, 160-62, 164f, 164-68, 165f
rod and cone photoreceptor cells, 160-