Neurons and other animals

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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