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Post by btbnnyr on Nov 1, 2015 18:38:58 GMT
I love brrrainzzz and will blab about my special interest here.
Now, I have to eat food and start my brrrainzzz homework.
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Post by OOM on Nov 1, 2015 23:22:13 GMT
I love brrrainzzz and will blab about my special interest here. Now, I have to eat food and start my brrrainzzz homework. I like a little psychology but I don't remember very much of anything from nursing school so I'm no help there. However my grandfather used to eat pig brains in scrambled eggs. It grossed me out big time. Oh, when I worked at the funeral home I saw brains fairly often. Sometimes whole, sometimes not. Zombies are supposed to eat brains. However, even though I literally believe in every supernatural creature and deity in some form or other, even if not how literature and legend describes them, I do not believe on zombies and space aliens. Side note about zombies. A while back everybody talked about a zombie apocalypse. If the unthinkable happened and I was actually wrong about something and a zombie apocalypse did occur, the Deep South would be fine. It's humid here all year round and dead bodies can't handle humidity. All you have to do is stay inside and they will literature fall apart within 72 hours. So what kinda brain stuff? Also what about skulls? They hold the brain so are you interested in them as well?
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Post by btbnnyr on Nov 1, 2015 23:43:37 GMT
I got to hold a real dead human brain in my neuroscience class. I looked into the nooks and crannies. The professor warned us not to lick it, take a bite out of it, or eat it.
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Post by OOM on Nov 2, 2015 1:33:45 GMT
I got to hold a real dead human brain in my neuroscience class. I looked into the nooks and crannies. The professor warned us not to lick it, take a bite out of it, or eat it. OMG of he said that then that means somebody in the past, whether in his class of somebody he knows class, did that. ROFL I've never held just the brain but I've seen it in the organ bag if they have been autopsied. Sometimes it's a solid black or white bag and other times its clear. The empty head is filled with packing peanuts so the eyes or eye cups can be held in place. Otherwise they would just fall in. I've seen brains that were in pieces from car wrecks and gunshots. They liquify pretty fast though. It really does look like oatmeal That's OK, I never liked oatmeal. Tell me what you know about dopamine, serotonin, and epinephrine in the brain please if you don't mind. Refresh my memory if possible. I'm taking meds that affect them. I know what they do but that is honestly all I remember. My memory is terrible right now because of menopause but I think it gets better after the hormones chill. If you are interested in that part, the meds I'm on are 300mg welbutrin and 10mg lexapro. They work great and I used to know all the details but I can't remember for the life of me now. Also, I think I've read that too little dopamine gives you Parkinson's and too much gives you schizophrenia. That's why tweakers see shadow people after a few days (or anybody on speed of any kind and awake for several days) and why sometimes they go temporarily crazy with amphetamine psychosis. If you know this and don't mine typing it I'd be very interested in learning
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Ezra
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Post by Ezra on Nov 2, 2015 17:41:24 GMT
Thanks for comparing brains to oatmeal.
Now I can pretend I'm eating brains for breakfast hehe.
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Post by btbnnyr on Nov 2, 2015 21:23:23 GMT
LOL, I have heard oatmeal compared to vomit too, and someone I know does not eat oatmeal because it reminds her of vomit.
I am glad the brain I held did not have eyeballs, as they would have been too tempting to lick.
We are going to learn about Parkinson's and schizophrenia later this term. A former labmate started a company to make devices that electrically stimulate brain from outside along with training programs to reduce symptoms of Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2015 21:32:59 GMT
When I was at school our form dissected bull's eyeball during a biology practical lesson. It's surprising how quickly people can get over their initial squeamishness. From the a total reluctance to even touch the eyeballs at the start of the practical by the end of the lesson kids were making holes in them with needles and using them as water pistols, dropping them down each others trousers and of course gleefully opening their mouth to reveal a large staring eyeball.
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Post by vwohie on Nov 4, 2015 6:50:13 GMT
...and of course gleefully opening their mouth to reveal a large staring eyeball. all of my why.
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Post by OOM on Nov 7, 2015 10:56:28 GMT
My son has a blue brain lamp. You want a picture of it?
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Post by OOM on Nov 7, 2015 12:39:51 GMT
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Post by itt2 on Nov 7, 2015 18:03:48 GMT
One of my most interesting jobs ever was as a psychometrist. Because I was not a psychologist, I could not "interpret" the results of the testing, but the psychologist I worked for let me do a full report whenever I wanted to. She would read it and give me feedback. I got to be pretty good. I think the brain is interesting, too!
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Post by btbnnyr on Nov 8, 2015 0:07:57 GMT
This is a nice lamp, I am always in favor of brain themed things. There are several plastic brain models around lab. There is a big build a brain set that I worked on. It was very hard to put together the little pieces of the spinal nerves coming off the spinal cord and sticking through the vertebrae holes. Right now, I am planning to build a rotating bookcase door for my office in lab.
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Post by OOM on Nov 8, 2015 2:18:46 GMT
If I was dying, and it was a for sure thing and I had very little time left and I had the money, I'd get that split brain thing done. Where they divide it. I've read about how it feels and how you work after that. I'd like to experience that, it would be cool. But only right at the end since they can't put it back afterwards.
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Post by btbnnyr on Nov 8, 2015 22:13:53 GMT
If I was dying, and it was a for sure thing and I had very little time left and I had the money, I'd get that split brain thing done. Where they divide it. I've read about how it feels and how you work after that. I'd like to experience that, it would be cool. But only right at the end since they can't put it back afterwards. That would be super interesting. I read in a textbook that the dominant hemisphere often comments on performance of nondominant hemisphere about things it cannot know as the stimuli were only presented to nondominant hemisphere. When someone was reading a book held in left hand, the hand controlled by right hemisphere kept putting down the book. In most people, the left hemisphere performs language functions, so the right hemisphere cannot read and got bored, the authors wrote.
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Post by Nurny on Nov 8, 2015 23:32:28 GMT
I have an exam soon, give me some of your brainz please.
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