Week 9: Mental Illness
The topic of this week was again amazing and full of useful information. Again I have to speak well about the book because it describes mental illnesses from different points of
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The topic of this week was again amazing and full of useful information. Again I have to speak well about the book because it describes mental illnesses from different points of
Continue reading...Week 9: Mental Illness
This week we discovered a lot about changing brain. From my perspective, it is very interesting to understand how the brain actually develops. Mature cortical cells can be classified as glia
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This week I have learned a lot of interesting information about the overall neural system of the human brain. Especially the parts about the sympathetic and parasympathetic division are useful not
Continue reading...ANS and diffuse modulatory systems – Chapter 15
Today is the last day of period I that means the half of the “Structure and operations of the human brain” course has passed. During this time, a lot of new
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These chapters focus on the primary functions of the human brain that are necessary for living. Interestingly, there are common for the vast majority of animal species. For example, mammals can
Continue reading...Summary – Sensory and motor system (Chapter 8,9,10)
The main topic for this week was Neurotransmitter systems that seems to be critical for deeper understanding of chemical synaptic transmission.
The course’s book starts consideration of
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I have finished reading chapters 2 and 3. And I have to said it was quite hard for me. One chapter takes me approximately 4 hours of reading. The main problem
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