Week 10: Motorsystem
The topic of this week’s lecture was the motor system. From this topic I had little to no prior knowledge before reading the book.
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The topic of this week’s lecture was the motor system. From this topic I had little to no prior knowledge before reading the book.
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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
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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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The topic of this week was the auditory system. For me the hardest part of the course is probably learning anatomical structures and this week we learned the anatomy of the
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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
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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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This week we covered the topics of senses: the taste, the vision and the smell. Olfaction and taste are chemical senses, whereas vision is a physical sense. Third category of senses
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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
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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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Main topics of this week were resting membrane potential and propagation action potentials. A lot of the information covered during the lecture was already familiar to me, such as protein structures
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