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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on November 30, 2021

Of motors and movement

This week’s lecture was the last of its kind. It covered the topics of the motor system and control of movement. It is one of “the big” tasks of the brain

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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on November 25, 2021

Of the troubles of the mind

This week’s lecture covered mental illnesses. I find the topic extremely important since mental disorders are more and more common with our modern-day lifestyle of mentally exhausting work.

This

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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on November 18, 2021

Of wiring the brain

This week we learned about how the brain first gets to be the brain, how the cells evolve, how the neural connections are formed, and how they are “kept up to

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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on November 9, 2021

Of hearing and listening

This week we learned about the structure of the ear and auditory pathways. Iiro also covered exactly how the brain processes, recognizes and localizes sounds. We briefly also talked about how

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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on November 4, 2021

Of brain diseases and babies in smart jumpsuits

In this week’s lecture, Iiro talked about heartbreaking diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

The role of vitamins (and the harm of the lack of them) was also covered

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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on October 26, 2021
Of arts and crafts

Of arts and crafts

I finalized my putty brain!

I feel I had to compromise a bit between anatomical accuracy and making the parts stay together, but this task gave me joy!

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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on October 22, 2021

Of the actual structure of the brain and getting to know it

This week marks the end of first period this academic year.

We didn’t have a lecture this week, but we did have an exercise about the different parts of

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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on October 15, 2021

Of smells and sights

This week’s lecture talked about sensory systems such as taste (fancy name gustation), smell (fancy name olfaction), and vision (no fancy name).

We learned how the brain codes all

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Author Annika Kluge in Uncategorized Posted on October 8, 2021

Of neurotransmitter systems and learning

This week’s lecture covered chapter 6 from the book, which discussed neurotransmitter systems.

There are more than 100 different neurotransmitters with approximately 10 doing most of the work (very

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Author Niloufar Zebarjadi in Uncategorized Posted on October 1, 2021

Synaptic transmission

This week’s lecture was about synapses and synaptic transmissions and how a signal transmits from one neuron to another. We learned about chemical synapses and the way the action potential opens

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