Graphics & photos image Krankheiten Alzheimer's disease Media - Image | Graphic: The most important Milestones in Alzheimer's Research For more than 100 years, researchers have been searching for the causes of Alzheimer's disease. image Percipience Hearing Balance: The vestibular Labyrinth A labyrinth for balance: The vestibular system ensures equilibrium. image Percipience Hearing Hearing: Audio scale When does noise start to hurt? image Percipience Hearing Hearing: Types of Sound and their Perception Sometimes uniform, sometimes chaotic: the appearance of sound waves depends on their source. image Percipience Hearing Neural classics of linguistic competence Without Broca's area and Wernicke's area, we would be quite tongue-tied. image Percipience Hearing Hearing: The Cochlea The inner ear contains a spiral structure that is very important for hearing: the cochlea. image Percipience Hearing Hearing: Structure of the Organ of Corti Sound is converted into electrical impulses in the ear. The organ of Corti plays a crucial role in this process. image Percipience Hearing Hearing: Structure of the Ear Cochlea or stirrup: The ear consists of many parts that are important for hearing. image Percipience Hearing Hearing: Cochlear Implants Thanks to one device, many deaf people can hear again: the cochlear implant. image Grundlagen Anatomy Connections of the Dorsal Thalamus As the “gateway to consciousness,” the thalamus is particularly strongly connected to the cerebral cortex. image Grundlagen Anatomy Network of the Basal Ganglia One nucleus inhibits the other, only so that the cortex can ultimately be stimulated. image Grundlagen Anatomy The Hippocampal Network New memories are consolidated in the hippocampus via an excitatory circuit. image Grundlagen Anatomy The Papez Circuit in the Limbic System The Papez circuit connects four parts of the limbic system. New memory content is transmitted. image Krankheiten Alzheimer's disease Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease In Alzheimer's disease, among other things, the immune cells of the brain – the microglia – are overactive. image Discover Milestones Infographic: The machinery of synaptic transmission Crowned with the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine: the discovery of molecular processes at the synapse. image Percipience Smell & Taste The Brain and Food A complex network of brain regions works together to regulate our appetite. image Percipience Smell & Taste The fine Structure of the Tongue Taste buds in the taste buds react to sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. image Percipience Smell & Taste Smell: From the Nose straight to the Brain At the top of the nasal cavity – directly connected to the brain – the olfactory epithelium picks up aromas. image Krankheiten Alzheimer's disease How the plaques typical of Alzheimer's disease develop Two cuts are necessary for the protein APP to form beta-amyloid. image Thinking Consciousness Consciousness: The Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS) Formation reticularis switching center: This region controls alertness and attention. image Discover Milestones Image | Perception: Split Brain Visual input from the left field of vision reaches the right hemisphere of the brain and vice versa. This might cause problems. image Percipience Hearing Habituation as a way out of the vicious circle Those who get used to the ringing in their ears can allow the tinnitus to fade into the background. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Types of Neurons Multipolar neurons have different characteristics depending on their function. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Swirling Synapses View through an electron microscope: image of a synapse image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Terminals of Communication Most nerve cells use chemical synapses to communicate. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Neuronal Burnout in the Hippocampus This is a cross-section of the hippocampus of an epilepsy patient. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Protein Highways Here you can see a network of dendrites from three nerve cells. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Incoming A nerve cell from the hippocampus sits enthroned in a Petri dish. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Neuron Storm Like thousands of tiny flashes of lightning, the extensions of nerve cells run through this image. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Delicate Threads: The Cytoskeleton of a Glial Cell The cytoskeleton of a glial cell appears extremely thin in this image. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain View of the Cerebellum Here you can see a cross-section of the cerebellum. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Colorful Activity: Nerve Cells in the Hippocampus This image shows a tangle of nerve cells in the hippocampus. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Dopamine As a neurotransmitter, dopamine also plays a role in the reward center. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Serotonin Serotonin is one of the neurotransmitters in the central nervous system. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Acetylcholine Acetylcholine was the first neurotransmitter to be discovered. image Grundlagen Communication in the Brain Structure of a Neuron A neuron consists of a cell body and its extensions. image Thinking Emotions Image | Theories on the Origin of Emotions Traditional theories of emotion formation came to different conclusions. show all 37 media contents
