Neuroscience Final Exam Notes

Neuroscience Final Exam Notes Molecular Signaling Within Neurons:  Electrical and chemical signaling mechanisms allow one nerve cell to receive and transmit information to another  Intracellular processing/signaling typically begins when extracellular chemical signals (e.g. neurotransmitters, hormones, trophic factors) bind to specific receptors located either on the surface or within the cytoplasm or nucleus of the target cells o Binding activates the receptors and stimulates casca...