Oct 31, 2016
**Many apologies for the screaming baby***
Basics
Frontal Lobe - in the front of the brain (behind your forehead)
This is the area that contains your personality. A stroke or brain injury or damage can alter someone’s personality drastically.
We take personality tests, but they are too basic to take such a complex...
Oct 24, 2016
Review
Disease like Alzheimer's and dementia are grey matter issues - the creation and translation of messages are interrupted or dysfunctional. White matter is like the power cords that are responsible for sending the signals.
White matter diseases
- Hypomylenation - cells are created with a low amount of myelin;...
Oct 17, 2016
Review
Grey matter - neuron cell bodies that create and translate
messages
White matter - myelin-covered axons that transmits the messages
across the brain
Conditions that affect grey matter
- Dementia - memory starts to fail with age (due to the death of brain cells). Newest formed memories get lost first (Last...
Oct 12, 2016
Brain Basics
All brains are wrinkly. Wrinkles in your brain are a good thing. Wrinkles are biology’s way of maximizing surface area while conserving space.
The plateaus of the brain are called gyri (or a gyrus).
The smaller, sunken in wrinkles are called sulci (or a sulcus). Sunken in sulci - that’s how...
Oct 3, 2016
Basic Brain Biology
Your brain is made of cells. Those cells are called neurons. Neurons transmit signals in the form of electricity (aka .positive and negative charges). One end of a neuron will build a signal or charge, and once it reaches a certain threshold, then a signal is send down the axons.
Most of the cells...