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Week 11: Motor system
This weeks topic was the motor system. I have previously been interested in the science of muscles from the viewpoint of an athlete. It is nice to get a deeper understanding
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Week 9: Wiring the brain
The mapping of the human brain seems like such a daunting task. It’s fascinating how the brain is built into such a complex structure. The instructions for creating the necessary facilities
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Week 7 Chemical control of the brain and behaviour
In this chapter I think there was a topic of a larger scale than what has previously been. The brains way of self-regulating its chemical balances, temperature and etc. is sophisticated
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Week 6: Brain anatomy
This week there was no lecture, but instead an exercise session where we learned about brain anatomy, and made a rough model of the brain with some modeling clay. I haven’t
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Week 4, neurotransmitters
This week we’ve studied the neurotransmitter system. It feels like the basics of neurons are coming together. I’m starting have a more complete picture of why neurons are able to do
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NBE-E4210 First thoughts
This blog post concerns the first two weeks of the course on structure and operation of the human brain. Before this course I hadn’t almost any knowledge of the subject. Just
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