Week 11: Motor system
This weeks topic was the motor system. I have previously been interested in the science of muscles from the viewpoint of an athlete. It is nice to get a deeper understanding
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This weeks topic was the motor system. I have previously been interested in the science of muscles from the viewpoint of an athlete. It is nice to get a deeper understanding
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This week was about mental health and the brain. This is a rather interesting topic, as it explains some common experiences of people with physical phenomena in the brain. I have
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The mapping of the human brain seems like such a daunting task. It’s fascinating how the brain is built into such a complex structure. The instructions for creating the necessary facilities
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This week finished the sensory system part of the course by focusing on auditory and vestibular (sensing posture and acceleration) systems. There is some analogy between hearing and vision, and even
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In this chapter I think there was a topic of a larger scale than what has previously been. The brains way of self-regulating its chemical balances, temperature and etc. is sophisticated
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This week there was no lecture, but instead an exercise session where we learned about brain anatomy, and made a rough model of the brain with some modeling clay. I haven’t
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The fifth week of our course focused on the chemical senses, eye and central visual system. I did not consider smell and taste that interesting when it comes to the operation
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This week we’ve studied the neurotransmitter system. It feels like the basics of neurons are coming together. I’m starting have a more complete picture of why neurons are able to do
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The third week of the course was about the basic operations of the synapses in the nervous system. The topic is rather interesting for me, as I have heard a lot
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This blog post concerns the first two weeks of the course on structure and operation of the human brain. Before this course I hadn’t almost any knowledge of the subject. Just
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