Monday, January 26, 2009

54321 #3 (T.P.T)

Comments
*Glia is the glue of the brain and the garbage collector.
*Emotion has 2 components,a feeling and an idea.
*When you get the gut experience and its with 'liking' you feel good.
*Many get an impulsive action that seems to bear little relation to what is actually happening.
*I learned that when a person has severe epilepsy they have to cut the copus callosum to control seizure.
Questions
*When did Einstein die?
*Where did hippocampi get its name?
*How is it possible for kids to have an entire hemisphere removed and come out wit a few major conflicts but with older people they come out damaged?
*Why is it that when you use your left eye you your right side of your brain?
Vocabulary
*schizophrenia- a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
*oligodendroglia-Neuralgia consisting of cells similar to but smaller than astrocytes, found in the central nervous system and associated with the formation of myelin.
*autopsy-inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination
Literary terms
*imagery- i could picture the man who got an autopsy and after he could only say the word tan.
*metaphor- they said Karl Wernicke was smart for discovering the Wernicke area in the brain but his words were gibberish.
Overview statement
*This was about many discoveries in the brain and also major surgeries that involve the brain.

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