Ramachandran's Mirror experiment

Here in this experiment Dr. Ramachandran talks about how a person who has lost a limb can not visually and khiaesthetically confirm their movement and sensation. The brain becomes stuck and is no longer connected to or influenced with the outside of that arms environment. So first he placed an mirror perpendicularly to the persons chest at the shoulder of the missing arm. The mirror creates a symmetrical reflection of their other existing arm making the person feel like they have an arm in the place of the missing arm. The person was after then asked to focus on the image of the good limb in place of the missing limb for quite a while. Afterward the person would be asked to move the good limb and the image of the good limb in place of the missing limb. The brain will be little by little tricked and the brain would substitute the healthy neurological pattern of the communication with the good limb in place of the missing limb. This type of experiment could be used to ease the sensation of the pain of the missing limb through therapy.

Male and Female Dissection

I have learned a lot of information about the male and female body from the video. Although there are some concepts within the video that I didn't catch at all I was able to trace back that information from the lessons in class. It is disturbing to learn about these stuff but actually it is very helpful for us to know all about how the male and female body functions and work for our future reference. I learned that testes have an exocrine and endocrine function. The exocrine focuses on sperm-producing while the endocrine focuses on testosterone-producing. The scrotum is a skin-like sac that hangs outside of the abdominal pelvic cavity and it provides the proper temperature for producing viable sperm. In a woman's body their consist of a duct system which includes the uterine or the fallopian tubes which extends from the vicinity of an ovary to the uterus. I also learned that the vagina is a passageway between the uterus and the body exterior that allows a baby or the menstrual flow to leave the body.

Urine as a diagnostic tool

Urine could be a diagnostic tool because urine test could tell if you have a specific disease or even when a woman is pregnant. Also, urine could tell how acidic your body juice is. Such urine test for testing a disease is simply done by just urinating on a strip and checking the color on the bottle to see what level you are on, the color would tell you how your body is working. For example if your urine turns out to be very yellow then it means that you do not have enough water in your body or it could mean that you  are not eating healthy enough. Women's also use the pregnancy test to test if they are pregnant or not. Once they urine on the test strip they would check if the line is positive for pregnancy. To get the accurate result the women would have to wait 10 minutes after peeing on the strip. Urine comes out of a humans body so they would tell a lot about what is going on within your body.

Pig Dissection!!!!

The pig dissection that we did this week in physiology class is pretty gross but interesting at the same time. At first I thought that it is pretty mean to cut the pig open but then I realized that there is a benefit to it because we are able to learn from it. One thing that bother me a lot about the dissection was the fume that the pig releases out. The fume would not really bother my eyes but my nose for sure because the fume made my nose burn. Even though after walking out of physiology classroom I still had that burning sensation within my nose but it did go away after awhile. The dissection did help me out a lot though because I learn more through visual and performance than just reading but a little of everything helps too. The visual and performance part of the dissection help me realize the position of the organ and the looks of the organ. Although it is smaller than the human organs I did get just a sight of how the organ looks like.

What I learn from the video

The video that we have watched in anatomy class about gross anatomy have taught me a lot of stuff. For examples, if you stretch out all our body organs into a straight line you get about 7 meters long of it. Or about where the stomach is located. I didn't know where it was located, well actually I thought it was located in the belly area but I was wrong it was located in the upper left top part from the belly. I also learn the color of how chime is in your body. After seeing how the doctor washed the chime down I got kind of disgusted afterward, it even made not feel hungry but afterward I felt better because I know that. It's just the body and how it functions.

How Can I Protect My Digestion

How can I protect my digestion? I think the best way is to eat proper and exercise. Because, I think if I were to eat the improper foods then it would cause my stomach to not feel good, which meaning that my stomach is not digesting the food properly.Also to drink alot of water because it would wash down the food into you stomach and make it easier for the stomach to break down the food faster so it wouldn't take too long. Like if you have too much substance in the sink and its all clump together then it wouldn't wash down the sink until you wash it down with some water. The same goes for your stomach. It would digest the food faster if you add some water to it.

Protection to infectious disease

No one can actually protect themselves from disease completely unless they don't ever come in contact with anyone or anything. We, as human beings come in contact with different type of bacteria and viruses everyday, and we don't know what we come in contact with and when to avoid it. The best way for us to avoid getting a infectious disease is to keep ourselves clean and have proper sanitation. The only way you can keep from getting infected is to use your common sense to not get in contact with it. For example, don't use a needle again if its have already been used, use a new one to avoid coming in contact with any other diseases or bacteria.

Allergies

Allergies is a abnormal reaction that one gets from a substance. Some allergies cause small blood vessels to become leaky which in turns make it a noticeable symptom such as runny nose, watery eyes, and itching, reddened skins. There are times when one inhales a allergen and they start to have a symptom of asthma. Allergies are usually cause with a substance that you are allergic to. For example, some peoples might be allergic to fish and if they eat it they might get a response reaction to it such as asthma, itching, reddened of the skin, and in worst cases a asthma attack.

What Worried Me Most From The Movie.

What worried me the most from the movie was getting infected with viruses and diseases. Before, I would think if I were to keep myself clean and stay away from things that could get me in contact with these viruses and diseases. But I was wrong myself, after watching the movie I have found out a lot of how diseases and viruses can be transfer easily from one person to another. Now from times to times I would cover my mouth and nose when someone sneezes and coughs because I am afraid of being infected. This also tells me to disinfect the products I use once it is dirty. I am not traumatized about it but I am just being more careful because I would hate to take shots from time to time.

Mechanisms That Controls Breathing

Some mechanisms that control breathing are exercise, conscious control, and and emotions. Exercise affect the breathing rate because when you exercise you increase the body temperature that causes an increase in the rate of breathing. Your emotions can also control your rate or breathing. For example, when you watch a scary movie the moment when someone is running after someone else to kill them gives you a gasp. That gasp is the extra inhalation of air into your body or when your scared you begin to breath more quickly. Your conscious also affect your breathing rate because, when you sing, swallow, or even go for a swim. You control the amount of intake of oxygen you need in order to perform the task. Like swimming, you would hold your breathe longer and breathe in deeper to supply your body enough oxygen for the body. This causes your body to respond to it by telling it to breathe more, therefore an increase in breathing rate.

Fascinating and Confusing Cardiovascular System

In this chapter of the cardiovascular system, I learned a lot of information's about the Cardiovascular System and how it works. But, from time to time I would get confused about how the blood flows throughout the body. I understand how the cardiovascular system is about how the blood get pump out of the heart and throughout the rest of the body. What I don't understand is how the heart does it. In this section it confused me about how the blood gets into the heart and out of the heart and what about the oxygen how does that work. I learned that the oxygen is carried within the blood and transfer throughout the body through blood. The blood in the body carries nutrients, waste, and oxygen with it throughout the body. The Cardiovascular System chapter is an interesting chapter but on some sections I am somewhat confused on it.

Ways Your Breathing Rate Can Change

For today's blog I will talk about 3 different ways that can change a persons breathing rate. Breathing rates can change through many different ways such as when a person has asthma, your emotions, chronic bronchitis, apnea, and emphysema. Some of these factors affect your breathing rate. If a person has asthma, the breathing rate can change because asthma is irritants in the bronchial passages. Making it hard to breath oxygen in and out. Therefore, causing the breathing rate to rise. Your emotions also control the breathing rate such as when you get scared you take a long gasp and then hold it then you would start to panic and make the rate rise. Chronic Bronchitis is when the mucosa in the lower respiratory passages become inflamed and starts to produce a great amount of mucus. The mucus traps ventilation and gas exchange. No oxygen getting through so, the breathing rate would increase.

For My Health Project

We are assigned a project to do for our on health. The assignment has been going well but I believe that if I wanted to lose more than my usual weight I have to be able to eat more healthy and exercise more. Every week I would eat a certain amount a food and exercise two to three times a week depending if I have time. But, at least I would exercise two times a week to keep my weight in a balance. Sometimes when i eat too full of a lunch I would not eat dinner because I am too full from the lunch I have eaten or if that portion is equal to a lunch and dinner add together. Most of the times in the morning I would eat only cereal and nothing else because with cereal I have milk in it and milk makes a person leaner and taller. The project has been going well but I do not think I would achieve my goal that easy because it takes a consistent watching over if what I eat and how much I exercise. But, I am trying my best to achieve that goal of mines which is to either maintain or lose weight.

human and mink musculature

Generally speaking minks look different from humans. There are also many different features between a mink and a human. First of all, human and minks are shaped different and also move different. Mink's are a bit more flexible than us of a human. The advantage that we have is that we are able to pick up things while the minks do not have that. Whats also very interesting about mink's is that they are able to run away faster than us. Even though if adrenaline in us kicks in I believe the mink's are much faster. During the dissections of the mink's I find it rather interesting that they minks have way more different muscles than us. Yes, they have the same priority muscles such as temporalis or the masseter. But, the minks has more and complicated muscles than ours. For example, the digastricus or the cleidomastoid. These are the main things that distinguish us from a mink. Also, mink's have an tail.