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Author Maria Rajakenttä in Mainposts Posted on December 5, 2021

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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Author Jan Andrys in Mainposts Posted on November 28, 2021November 28, 2021

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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Author Alena Alferova in Mainposts Posted on November 21, 2021

8 week: Changing brain

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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Author Maria Rajakenttä in Mainposts Posted on November 14, 2021

Week 7 of learning neuroscience

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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Author Jan Andrys in Mainposts Posted on November 2, 2021November 3, 2021

ANS and diffuse modulatory systems – Chapter 15

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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Author Alena Alferova in Mainposts Posted on October 24, 2021October 24, 2021
Last post in Period I

Last post in Period I

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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Author Maria Rajakenttä in Mainposts Posted on October 17, 2021

Lecture 5 – Senses: smell, vision and taste

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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Author Jan Andrys in Mainposts Posted on October 9, 2021October 10, 2021

Summary – Sensory and motor system (Chapter 8,9,10)

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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Author Alena Alferova in Mainposts Posted on October 3, 2021

Third week: Neurotransmitter system

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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Author Maria Rajakenttä in Mainposts Posted on September 26, 2021September 26, 2021

Second week of studying neuroscience

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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  • Week 10: Motorsystem
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  • 8 week: Changing brain
  • Week 7 of learning neuroscience
  • ANS and diffuse modulatory systems – Chapter 15

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