Week 11
This week, unfortunately, I missed the virtual excursion to Biomag. However, I have visited previously, in specific the TMS laboratory. Fortunately, I can watch the virtual excursion later to see what
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This week, unfortunately, I missed the virtual excursion to Biomag. However, I have visited previously, in specific the TMS laboratory. Fortunately, I can watch the virtual excursion later to see what
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In this week the topic was the motor system; how the nervous system controls all the movements in the body. We learned about different types of neurons that
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This week we talked about mental disorders and specifically about anxiety disorders and depression and their hypothesized biological mechanisms. The monoamine theory of depression is very well known and seems to
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This week was concentrated on the wiring of the brain during development. It was focused on the process of how the connections between the different structures of the brain happen. The
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In this week the subject was the auditory system. In the lecture we got introduced to the inner ear parts, which are extremely small and complex in their function and structure
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On this week’s lecture we talked more about neurotransmitter systems. I hadn’t heard before of categorizing the systems by how large areas of the brain they innervate ie. how diffuse they
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The first period has ended and thus the first part of the course. So far we have learned the basics of neuron structure and function. The ionic basis of membrane potential
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In this week we discussed in the lecture about olfaction and vision, and we also had a virtual excursion to ANI (Aalto neuroimaging).
In the excursion we got introduced
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In this week, the introduction week, we mostly touched briefly on several subjects of the course. I was mostly interested in different cell types of the brain, why they are all
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This week we talked about membrane proteins, membrane potential and action potential. For me of special interest was how ionic currents spread inside the neuron. The currents that result in thousands
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