Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a brain disease that affects the part of your brain, brain stem, and spinal cord that controls muscles we control by thinking about, and don't move by them selves (like your heart does). You have two sections of neurons that mainly …
This week, we each got to touch a real human brain. The Neuroscience Training Program at the University of Wisconsin Madison has an outreach kit that they allowed me to check out for demonstration for the students. Included was: one whole human brain, fixed, with the…
This week, we really got into the brain anatomy more deeply and did the sheep brain dissection. First, we discussed human brain anatomy and watched this movie. It goes through some basic brain anatomy and uses a 3D model system to show different parts. We also discu…
Hey my mom showed me and my brother this video and thought it might be good for tomorrow sorry for doing the homework late Hope u guys get a kick out of it like we did
This week, we made models of neurons -- out of candy! It was a team effort, and it seemed like everyone was able to leave with a sugar high! There was enough candy for all the parts of interest, and we even had some choices to make: The cell bodies were the cupcakes.…
We are finally at my area of expertise -- neuroscience -- and we started by reading this page for homework and having a quiz show based on it. Here were some of the main facts we went over: Brain cells or nerve cells are called neurons. Neurons have a nucleus, cytopl…
In class i learned that the nucleus holds the hole blueprint to make a hole new cell! And that the cell wall holds up the side of the plant cells! It was really fun to look at the dyed slide! A dyed slide!
This blog post covers what we've done for the past two class meetings. Our overall focus for these two classes has been making slides, and for the second class, we discussed what cells are and the parts of cells. Histology is the microscopic study of the cells and…
This week, we finished our pig dissections. Some of the students were interested doing the final step of sewing up the Y incisions we made, like what is done for autopsies. The organs that have been removed and examined are placed back in the body, arranged to restor…
Why is the liver so important it filters stuff out of your blood like alcohol how does the heart pump blood electrical impulses sent down by "nodes" thru conducting pathways towards the atria and ventricles. what does the kidney do it produces and generate…
1:Why is the liver so important? 2:How does the hart pump blood? 3:Why does the kidney do?
This week's focus was the kidney, an important organ whose main role is to filter the blood to generate urine. We can live without one kidney, but not without two. They are located in the abdominal cavity near the organs of the digestive tract, but they are part …
The Average adult liver weighs about 3 pounds. Its color is reddish brown. It is normally protected by the rib cage. Secretes bile Is important and super cool!