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.