technology and your brain

The Washington Post published an article about how GPS is affecting your brain's growth.  I think you'll find it interesting.

Links we used in class:
radiolab show "lost and found"  we listened to section one, but the entire show is excellent (as usual)

TED talk:  neuroanatomist with stroke

By the way, this is a hippocampus next to a seahorse (the hippocampus was named this because it was thought to look like a seahorse.  You decide....)

brains!!!!

pituitary gland

cerebellum

Hello class,

Please learn the parts of the brain:
cerebrum (4 lobes)

cerebellum (arbor vita)

medulla oblongata

hypothalamus


pons


optic chiasm

Here's a great site to help.  Please read about fMRIs also (on this same site-scanning the brain)

radiolab link

Here's the radiolab that we listened to yesterday.  The section about dopamine and gambling starts at 28:40 and lasts for 13 minutes.  It also nicely reviews the role of Dopamine.  Enjoy

Sub plans for Friday 2-4

Hello class,  Here's the assessment statements.

First:  IB lab will be due on Wednesday of this coming week.  Call it a snow day extension.

   
E.4.4   List three examples of excitatory and three examples of inhibitory psychoactive drugs.  

•     Excitatory drugs: nicotine, cocaine and amphetamines

•          Inhibitory drugs: benzodiazepines, alcohol and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

   E.4.5  Explain the effects in terms of their action at synapses in 
        the brain.of

THC and Cocaine

What better way to investigate this than by observing drug-addled partiers.  Check out this site, if you dare!  The red terms can be viewed directly on this site.  (crystal meth works like amphetamines) (THC = marijuana).

I'd like you to read the rest of section 45.3 on cocaine and nicotine, also.