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Week 9
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
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Week 6
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
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Week 5
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
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Week 4
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
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Week 3 – Synaptic transmission
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
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