Cortical

... attached to the cortex? Did it have any mechanical strength or the thin basal layer of medullary bone will eventually completely separated from cortical bone after sometime?

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... neurons to reach action potential firing threshold and fire away, this signals will synapse at the spinal cord, where it later must reach higher cortical areas and synapse with neurons that carry one of the many feel-good neurotransmitters that the good lord in his immense knowledge of neurochemistry, ...

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... from intracellular storage in the egg upon fertilizaation, starting at the point of sperm entry. This calcium wave is the initiator of the cortical granule reaction that slowly blocks polyspermy and creates the fertilization envelope. Beginning the whole process of development for the zygote.

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... equivalent to or greater than any purported race differences. He also opposed conclusions of race differences in structural variables such as cortical thickness, size of frontal lobe, or complexity of the brain's convolutions. Rushton (1988a), however, countered that aggregating across studies ...

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... that brain size and cognitive ability are related? Yes! Haug (1987, p.135) found a correlation of 0.479 (N = 81, P<0.001) between number of cortical neurons (based on a partial count of representative areas of the brain) and brain size in humans. His sample included both men and women. The ...

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