Technology is really influencing maps. Maps of the world have gone from paper maps to Google Maps and the same goes for the maps of a brain, they are getting more advanced. A map of the brain helps us understand and organize it better. With the improvements in technology it is getting easier to understand and find new things about the brain. Let's look at the brain and find out about all the functions of its different sections.
"Scientists in the end of the twentieth century learned that they could track blood flow to map non evasively where activity was going on in the human brain." says Allan Jones right before he tells us about the functions of each part of the brain. In the back on the brain, called the cerebellum, is what keeps you standing or sitting upright. This is the part of the brain that Daniel Wolpert talked about in his whole TED talk (the one I did last week). So according to Wolpert the cerebellum is the most important section of the brain since it dictates movement. It is involved in coordinated movement. On the side of the brain closer to the front is called the temporal cortex, this section where there is primary auditory processing. You hear words then you send them up to higher language processing centers. Towards the front of the brain is where all of your complex thoughts/decision making takes place. This part of your brain is the last to develop. It matures in late adulthood. All of your decision-making processes take place.
To learn more about the brain medical examiners need to study the brain. They study dead normal human brains, but first they have to find a one. It has to meet all of the following requirements: they must be a normal human between the ages of 20 and 60, they must die a natural death with no injuries to the brain, they can not have a history of psychiatric disease, they can not have any drugs onboard. They are still really picky about which brains they do choose. They are searching for brains that they can remove tissue within twenty-four hours from the time of death. They end up getting a lot more male brains then female, men die from an accidental death a lot more than women do, they also are a lot more likely for their spouse to give consent than the other way around.
All the information they learn and find out from each brain they receive, gets put on the internet and any scientist around the whole world can access it. I think that is pretty cool. Any scientist from around the whole world can get this information about a brain, instead of every single neuroscientist and anatomist having to do it themselves they can use someone else's and observe that person's work. All the scientists around the whole world are sharing and getting more accomplished while doing it.
All of this information is really cool, about the functions of each part of your brain. What I do not get is why do we not learn about brains in school, it is really interesting and it kind of seems like something we should learn about, that is necessary to learn. All we learn about the brain is basic stuff about it, like what each lobe is called and where it is located. Why do we not go into more depth about the brain, like it's functions and all the cells in it?
After I watched this video on the brain, I am a hundred times more interested in it than I was before. So if you want to learn more about the brain I would suggest going to ted.com to watch this TED talk about the brain and it's map.
"Scientists in the end of the twentieth century learned that they could track blood flow to map non evasively where activity was going on in the human brain." says Allan Jones right before he tells us about the functions of each part of the brain. In the back on the brain, called the cerebellum, is what keeps you standing or sitting upright. This is the part of the brain that Daniel Wolpert talked about in his whole TED talk (the one I did last week). So according to Wolpert the cerebellum is the most important section of the brain since it dictates movement. It is involved in coordinated movement. On the side of the brain closer to the front is called the temporal cortex, this section where there is primary auditory processing. You hear words then you send them up to higher language processing centers. Towards the front of the brain is where all of your complex thoughts/decision making takes place. This part of your brain is the last to develop. It matures in late adulthood. All of your decision-making processes take place.
To learn more about the brain medical examiners need to study the brain. They study dead normal human brains, but first they have to find a one. It has to meet all of the following requirements: they must be a normal human between the ages of 20 and 60, they must die a natural death with no injuries to the brain, they can not have a history of psychiatric disease, they can not have any drugs onboard. They are still really picky about which brains they do choose. They are searching for brains that they can remove tissue within twenty-four hours from the time of death. They end up getting a lot more male brains then female, men die from an accidental death a lot more than women do, they also are a lot more likely for their spouse to give consent than the other way around.
All the information they learn and find out from each brain they receive, gets put on the internet and any scientist around the whole world can access it. I think that is pretty cool. Any scientist from around the whole world can get this information about a brain, instead of every single neuroscientist and anatomist having to do it themselves they can use someone else's and observe that person's work. All the scientists around the whole world are sharing and getting more accomplished while doing it.
All of this information is really cool, about the functions of each part of your brain. What I do not get is why do we not learn about brains in school, it is really interesting and it kind of seems like something we should learn about, that is necessary to learn. All we learn about the brain is basic stuff about it, like what each lobe is called and where it is located. Why do we not go into more depth about the brain, like it's functions and all the cells in it?
After I watched this video on the brain, I am a hundred times more interested in it than I was before. So if you want to learn more about the brain I would suggest going to ted.com to watch this TED talk about the brain and it's map.