Structure and operation of the human brain learning blog

This week’s topic on the Structure and Operation of the Human Brain course was mental illness. The book and lecture covered the basics symptoms of the most common psychiatric disorders and

This week’s subject about mental illnesses was very interesting. Overall, the brain and mental illnesses possess a huge challenge compared to other illnesses, as mental illnesses may be caused by only

This week on the course we discussed the human auditory system, concluding the coverage of sensory systems on the course. This weeks exercise on sensory systems was particularly interesting.

This week we had the brain anatomy workshop, which was fun and informative. Building/drawing our own brain models helped in getting more familiarised with the most important brain parts, and helped

The chapters were very informative once again. Chapter eight, although addressing chemical senses, went quite deep in the basic operations of the human sensory system. It was interesting to read how

The concept of neurotransmitters is very interesting, and it was first of all beneficial to get to know the exact requirement for a substance to be counted as a neurotransmitter. However

This week’s topic on the structure and operation of the human brain course was centered around the structure and electrical properties of the neuronal membrane at rest, and the generation and

The chapter was very insightful in describing different types of synaptic reactions. Although I’ve previously learnt how synaptic reactions occur, the working of electrical synapses was quite new to me, as

Although cell structures have been addressed in previous courses, the brain structure, much due to its complexity, has some way remained more obscure. This is why it was helpful that in