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00:01 Uh huh. And so please look the slide and think about it.

00:12 . Mhm. And the reason why ask you to look at the slide

00:17 think about it is because I'm gonna you the slide at the very end

00:22 the semester and ask you to look it and think about it and think

00:28 what you have learned and what you understood about the brain and the brain

00:37 . And it's a pretty pictures. we studied the central nervous system which

00:43 the brain and the spinal cord. so you have the lobes of the

00:49 , you have the brain stem, cerebellum that's attached on the back of

00:53 brain stem and spinal cord that goes the vertebral column and vertebra protect your

01:01 cord and in between each vertebra you the spinal nerves that radiate out throughout

01:07 entire extent of your body. And how you're capable of moving your toes

01:13 your fingers and talking at the same . It's these are the commands that

01:17 coming from your brain. Everything that into your brain gets processed everything from

01:24 neck below. All of the somatic . You don't have eyes and ears

01:30 the neck below. Everything from your comes through the spinal nerves after parents

01:36 the spinal cord carries that information in brain, all of the activity from

01:41 below what you're doing. But not actually, all of the activity is

01:49 commands going into the spinal cord into nerves, your facial muscle movement.

01:56 speaking commands to get initiated in the cortex a lot of them are administered

02:03 the nuclear and the brain stone. the brain stem will control everything from

02:10 up to face, the movement of muscles and all of these things.

02:14 then You have four techs. for the brain is subdivided into the

02:22 lobe, parietal lobe exhibit a lobe the back of the brain, temporal

02:29 . And here you have the cerebellum attached to the brain stone. So

02:34 super macro view, you have the sitting in the cranium Spinal cord done

02:43 90° brains. Them too the plane the brain and the spinal cord going

02:52 the vertebral column in the spinal And of course it's not just that

02:59 brain controls the body. The body controls the brain. In fact,

03:04 don't know if I haven't but yesterday opened my mailbox and found this uh

03:15 , gut matter some context of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative disorders. So this

03:25 just from this. Ut health. of marco bio. Yeah. You

03:37 a lot of DNA. Not just DNA going around now, but you

03:42 more foreign DNA. And your god your own DNA. The composition of

03:48 microbes and microorganisms of the DNA and else in there. The metabolites when

03:55 microorganisms influence your well being influenced your . Some of the the micro bio

04:05 or abnormal microbiome can lead to neurological . So the brain of course controls

04:14 body, The body influences the There's peripheral nervous system that gets completely

04:20 and of course that we're not really to talk about their for nervous

04:24 Just the central nervous system. When look at the brain you have the

04:29 into lobes and you will say well and on the gross level, temporal

04:37 here and exhibit a low vision, lobe, somatic sensations, frontal of

04:48 function, cognitive functions and executive Mhm. Yeah. That's pretty

04:58 But that's not really the case if think about how we function as human

05:04 , not just by being able to several things at the same time.

05:10 also process several sensory inputs at the time. But we make our own

05:20 of the sensory inputs based on the that we have in the brain.

05:25 you have these very prominent fibers in areas and in some other areas not

05:30 prominent fibers that interconnect these different And all of the emphasis are coming

05:36 the periphery and all of the potential before they go out on the

05:41 Get processed by many different parts of brain in the areas that we call

05:46 areas, areas that are capable of multiple sensory modalities, visions. Now

05:55 touch for youtube process it in the there is associated and make a

06:05 The explosion smells like gas run. huh. Okay. That's a

06:13 That's all of the factors coming You heard something you turned around,

06:17 smell something you're reacting to it. that's that's that's inc happens very fast

06:24 it happens very seamless for us. ? Like checking my messages, typing

06:31 and I'm still thinking about the game know? So it's because of this

06:38 that exists between different lows and different of the brain. And then the

06:45 course the first section of the course really going to cover this micro level

06:51 at this micro level you have individual and what is detected here is a

07:00 and this neuron has a selma the body and has a dendrite and this

07:07 is being contacted by another neuron. the ending of the southern neuron is

07:12 an axon. And where this acts contacts onto this dendrite or onto

07:19 You have a very specialized location and specialized organization, anatomical and physiological.

07:26 call the synapse and a given Such a screw Kinji sal one of

07:34 most beautiful south, it looks like big bush. We can't be selling

07:38 cerebellum can have up to 300,000 sin . Up to 300,000 emphasis. It

07:47 mean that all 300,000 will be active the same time. That the reason

07:54 I say that is for you to recognizing the processing complexity that a singular

08:02 is capable of doing in a very short manner within milliseconds. This neuron

08:09 receiving positive excitatory inputs. 5000 of 3000 inhibitor inputs, different parts of

08:20 cell. Within a millisecond this nerve to make a decision. Am I

08:25 enough to produce an action potential, that as some sort of a meaningful

08:31 to the pier that I'm connected to the region and another brain region or

08:38 ? Or be inhibited. Be Should I go up? What should

08:43 stay now? Should I go Should stay down? So hundreds of

08:50 of inputs, thousands of inputs, of thousands of inputs. Very quick

08:55 individual synopsis in the whole narrow nobody a very quick outlet response and that

09:02 responses the action potential and no and are neurons and these neuronal networks are

09:09 by glial cells and in fact glial are a lot more abundant as the

09:18 subtype in the brain through neurons, of the matter is going well,

09:29 glial cells so they are not detected here. But you already see it's

09:37 it's a pretty thick forest out there communications. If signal is being passed

09:43 and on top of that There's about , different subtypes of of these

09:52 That means it's like 150 different dialect which they can communicate if the language

10:00 the word is action potential. They have 150 different ways of communicating

10:07 language of actions And those 100 50 subtypes of neurons are surrounded by several

10:15 subtypes of real sense. And for while glial cells because in greek glee

10:23 glue was thought to be playing a passive role. And now we know

10:29 glial cells and you will learn actively neuronal migration. How neurons migrate to

10:36 final destination. When neurons are They're not born in their final destinations

10:41 temporal lobe or exhibit. Although they're in a couple of places, very

10:46 places in the brain and from there migrate. Grill sells, help them

10:51 and find their final destination within a specific location within the network. Real

10:57 as well. Get engaged when there information and when there is injured they

11:03 scavenge the tissue for repair of the . They will influence sonata genesis formation

11:11 new synopsis and they will influence also of the synopsis. Now, what

11:18 plasticity plasticity is the fact that these between neurons and these connections between brain

11:26 are plastic. They change the number synapses, changes some of these synapses

11:34 away. They depreciate over time or depressed and they die away and there's

11:43 instances and lead episodes. Learning stimulants will increase the production of the synopsis

11:51 of the new sin absence. So process of plasticity just like the trees

11:57 new leaves and they drop at the of the season and then they grow

12:00 leaves again? You have plastic processes help us learn which really serves as

12:07 basis of learning memory, memorize things you can recall things easily because it's

12:14 someplace within a code. And adaptability to nature and adaptability to would

12:23 as humans produce such as technology. . And we will talk about this

12:31 we talk about the amount of sensor . But I said that in class

12:36 and I think I'm gonna say this also, You were probably not born

12:41 years ago. Most of humanity. and you were born with a cell

12:49 in your hand. Right? Mm . I mean how many of you

12:56 the age of six or 78 12 started using suffer. Mm.

13:06 many how many of you have have the dow phone? No, but

13:16 real dial phone that forgot, How many of you used the dolphin

13:22 the last year? Uh five But it was probably buttons. There

13:36 a dial. Okay. Okay. you see where I'm going with us

13:42 If you wanted to make a phone some 30 or 40 years ago,

13:46 was a process for a phone And there was also a purpose for

13:52 phone and the phone was to make calls. The phone wasn't the source

13:59 music and news and social and dating fights and everything else. You

14:06 it was a phone call, you walk over with the first thing I

14:12 like what is this thing called? is it called? You put it

14:19 what is it? A phone handle two pieces. What is the

14:30 Listen, it's another one as a that delivers information to your year.

14:36 right, well, you still have . I mean, so you woke

14:43 , pick it up, put it your ear And then in Ceron one

14:53 four three. Uh so it's all , right. Wait for the

15:05 When you talk to the person, need to write something down. You

15:09 have a notebook. So you typically it to the other hand that you

15:14 have to write down how many of still write things down most of

15:20 I'm having a difficult time writing things , but I grew up writing things

15:25 . I didn't grow up having paths computers. I learned how to type

15:31 high school on the typewriter. So . You see what I'm going with

15:41 . It's easier for me now the and faster than to write what

15:46 The changes that happened in the brain that happened in the connectivity in the

15:51 of the synapses and how different brain communicate. And the one test that

15:57 doing a lot more off, which typing versus writing down is taking over

16:03 space and the brain is creating a and creating a map. And that

16:07 is also not just a temporary my it's also a permanent now because it's

16:11 grain and how you do things. so the last thing about the phone

16:19 is that once you're finished talking you up, you don't take it with

16:28 and carry in your pocket, it not mobile. And that's that's a

16:36 too. Because then if you forgot where you needed to call somebody

16:41 we have to go back and But sometimes you have to wait in

16:45 . Sometimes you have to have a because it was a pay phone.

16:50 brain had a completely different map for you use the phone and this map

16:57 attack right now. Our map for a phone and making a phone call

17:05 just a tap in this. that's all two fingers. And it's

17:19 our brains and it's reshaping our These fingers are taking a lot more

17:25 in the brain than these other The map for the making a phone

17:30 and grabbing it by the handle putting your ear. It's a very simple

17:35 map. Gross map. If you have motor function. This is a

17:40 fine map of motor function but it's dedicated to just a few digits on

17:46 hand, on the dominant. Have question. Okay. Mhm.

17:55 there is a reason. So neural . It's a very good question.

18:01 plasticity in general is quite prominent and very big part of the brain development

18:11 into out the lessons and then your are not as plastic. And one

18:17 the great examples actually for community like of Houston, which is very international

18:23 myself being from Lithuania, my first , Lithuanian, I came here at

18:29 years of age and I still had detectable accent. If you came here

18:34 six years of age, you can speaking english and nobody will and you

18:41 actually have grown up in a foreign immigrant community Or then you may actually

18:49 two languages or three languages. But no, you kind of tell that

18:56 person has an accent. And so is an example is when you're studying

19:00 is the best time to learn numbers about four years of age to about

19:04 years of age. And those 20 olds can spend the same amount of

19:08 or more studying and reciting and speaking language but their pronunciation will not be

19:16 good, will not be perfect and will be struggling and having a fluency

19:22 going to be much harder to earn fluency in that language. Uh your

19:27 elasticity then also starts going away with . So there's several factors, there's

19:35 factors that means that there are certain or neurotrophic six neurotrophic factors that get

19:42 in Raleigh development that encourage this growth synapses and plasticity. You're born with

19:49 lot more synapses that you end up into adulthood actually. So during your

19:54 development you have hundreds of thousands potentially even billions if not trillions of

20:04 because there's billions of south and trillions synapses that get driven away the attrition

20:11 because they're not being used. And early development is very important. And

20:17 you expose the child to different different stimulants and experiences because that's the

20:23 where they're absorbing and using all of traffic factors to build the precise connectivity

20:29 processing of all of that information. , if you deprive a child,

20:34 child and a famous example child that's the in a box lock shop is

20:41 in the medical center. It's If you deprive the experiences, it's

20:49 activity dependent process. Plasticity is an dependent process. So stop doing

20:55 You lose that plasticity. Mhm. an activity dependent process. And there's

21:02 lot more trophic factors during early And with aging there is other cellular

21:08 such as cell aging, the the strength of the synapses to just

21:16 over a So that perfect time for synaptic plasticity is up into the early

21:22 for language learning and for a lot running and that's, you know,

21:27 hear the stage moves to me. it's never too late. So I

21:34 this is really cool about looking at slide and then looking at the slide

21:39 the end of the semester. these are your authors of the bookmark

21:44 Barry, Connors, Michael 30. Lecture material I would say maybe

21:51 of images are drawn from this If you follow the lecture material,

21:56 you take the notes, I'm recording lectures and I'm going to post

22:00 I'm going to post something new. video points when I can figure out

22:03 going on with video points the semester yet. I'm waiting to hear back

22:09 U. H. I. But it will have a spot for

22:11 of the recorded lectures. And if follow the material electricity, few watch

22:18 videos. Uh, you can still a book and I will encourage you

22:25 get a book, especially if you going into anything that's related to

22:31 the neural rehabilitation psychiatrist, psychology, medical field that we keep that book

22:38 it has a lot of very useful in it that you may use.

22:44 this course and what we will do for the remainder of our time,

22:51 is almost turning all of our We'll talk about two key concepts in

22:57 and I'm going to come back to and develop some more of your kind

23:01 understanding of how the response came about then we're gonna talk about COVID-19 infections

23:07 about 5-10 minutes. So this slide the prehistoric times and a procedure that

23:17 depicted here and I'm opening in the that is referred to as a great

23:24 nation or sculptural pronation. 10 : BC. Archaeologists are finding these

23:33 The skulls don't just have a gashing crack in the hall like somebody put

23:39 hammer to it like in a combat another sharp object like a stone.

23:46 rather they have very precise geometrical form cuts. They are located in multiple

23:53 of the skull and ideological evidence also that they have been repeated multiple

24:02 The first thing that comes to it has to be some sort of

24:05 form of prehistoric torture and of course probably not the case and it's also

24:14 everywhere around the world. America indians the Peru President Day Peru region,

24:23 , Mesopotamian, different people around the in different areas exhibit these scars with

24:32 nations. This is a tool, tool would be used to produce interpretation

24:39 the handle of the stool on top it depicts the actual procedure. So

24:46 the middle you have a patient that's uh you have a another person that

24:53 like holding that patient and another person straddled on top of this patient that's

25:01 into the skull. Of course there many different spiritual religious shamanic interpretations of

25:13 procedure. The person that is mad is obsessed person that is gone on

25:24 . You can release their backstairs by the brain by opening, cracking the

25:32 open and the interpretations that if somebody overheating of course the heat rises so

25:41 the temperature. But the best interpretations date that exists for great entrepreneur nations

25:49 that they were done for real medical reasons. If you have a build

25:56 of cerebrospinal fluid and you have the cerebrospinal fluid will start pushing on

26:03 brain tissue, causing massive pain and , even deforming the skull in young

26:11 . And the only way that you prevent that is making a hole in

26:15 skull and draining the fluid. If have very strong trauma to your head

26:23 you have accumulation of the blood, have hemorrhaging and then you have blood

26:30 and you have build up of pressure the fluids around. The only

26:36 to clean up that is to crack skull open and clean it up from

26:42 brain tissue. So, repeat entrepreneur , obviously we're done as repeated

26:51 even multiple parts of the brain over times and really served as the first

26:59 of neurosurgery. Cool ! Right in . We jumped to Egypt and we

27:10 about 1,700,000 BC, which is the approximate day for Edwin smith surgical

27:20 And of course Edwin smith was not great Egyptian daddy, but he was

27:30 leader of the expedition and the guy funded the excavations in Egypt that discovered

27:36 papyrus which was Imhotep papyrus but it's Evelyn smith for paris imho Tab was

27:45 court physician works and the time in and in general you couldn't mess with

27:55 bodies. Um hooked up was the one that started describing the anatomy uh

28:03 . So anatomy and physiology of the body as the court physician working for

28:10 loss. And later as a day he had access to enormous amounts of

28:17 because of the massive building of the term. Is that is happening because

28:21 the worst enslavement the fights that is on and all this time. It

28:29 not allowed to take a human body open the skull and they set out

28:34 brain or muscles. It's it's heresy do that. Egyptians would treat their

28:42 in a special way. They wouldn't them and preserved their bodies but that

28:47 for an average person. And as preparing the body to be preserved,

28:53 would take this tool that looked like metal hook and they would put that

28:59 hook through the nose and scoop up of the brain tissue. They didn't

29:06 that brain was important to preserve and it the marrow of the skull and

29:13 heart they thought was the central organ the most important organ in the

29:19 Uh huh. But in the hotel he sees these open wounds gashes in

29:25 abdominal cavity, cracked skulls. This gives him a window to start observing

29:33 injuries. To start observing anatomy in body anatomy in the brain. And

29:39 this papyrus, he describes 48 injury . 27 of them are had trauma

29:47 . Although brain is a marrow of skull Imhotep recognizes that an injury to

29:53 brain may result in a peripheral meaning that an injured to the left

30:00 of the brain may end up in paralysis of the right hand. And

30:05 recognizing that there are distal effects. means that somehow this brain or bone

30:13 is connected to the distal anatomy of , to the distal anatomy of the

30:19 of the body. And potentially the you will to devises a system of

30:29 and its treatment classification. Come you have ailments to be treated may

30:36 treated and not to be treated. day medicine. I always said we

30:43 have any more triage system like this everybody gets treated and then covid hints

30:52 hospitals got crowded and guess what You go through the triage system,

30:59 surgery, go home and wait right of breath, need a ventilator.

31:06 see you covid positive. Not so . Lay down on the floor.

31:14 . Right. It's still you have system. And unfortunately as the health

31:21 , this modern health system gets It's absolute fullest and strained to its

31:29 capacity. They actually fall back into rudimentary principles. Uh now he also

31:41 developing the descriptions in this in this of different parts of the brain or

31:47 brain is. So this is ancient hiring blitz if any of you are

31:53 versed in this. This is the , This is the convolutions which refers

32:01 the gira and south side and even of the, of the brain.

32:08 an image here of the membrane, membrane as if it's covering the brain

32:15 like almost like an umbrella. Am right or was everybody sees that?

32:23 this? What do you guys see ? This is this is a lot

32:26 like a cup and something is being out of this cop. And somehow

32:32 represents to me like weighs a little like fluid and this membrane somehow is

32:37 with the fluid. And so this is for a cerebrospinal fluid. The

32:44 fluid gets produced in the brain and bathes your brain provides the nutrients but

32:49 provides the cushioning in the protection and kind of almost gel fluid like

32:56 Thanks how insightful is that. Or this is the membranes for individual

33:04 It's important to have thought about, is doubtful but what an amazing person

33:12 , to have an access to have ability to look in a window into

33:17 human body and window into the human start defining describing start really. The

33:25 anatomy is the start of that and can't say it's modern anatomy but it's

33:29 start of the anatomy all because of hurt tap. Okay, so

33:38 instead of going into the more historical , we have a little bit of

33:44 left in the last five minutes. going to Talk about COVID 19 and

33:51 want you to think about this now when we come back at the end

33:55 the semester, we'll have a little more detailed lecture about this. But

34:00 you have to think about is that when it enters the brain, if

34:05 would be really bad news and that's we call neurological sick, Wailua.

34:11 sequence, neurological consequence systems you made COVID 19 infections. This is a

34:17 chorus and people don't understand that very or virus entering into the cell into

34:24 , into the cns Can happen because inhale the virus which is in the

34:30 which is airborne into your lungs. it populates your lungs, it goes

34:35 your blood. If the level of viral load is high enough in the

34:42 , it crosses the blood brain There's a barrier between the blood and

34:46 brain and it gets into the brain the blood. This is one way

34:51 which virus can reach your brain The other way in which virus can

34:57 your brain tissue is through a nasal . The droplets usually that contained the

35:06 and the specific anatomy of the olfactory lost with these droplets. To use

35:14 olfactory nerve endings and creep up these nerve endings into the central nervous system

35:21 the death. So because these nerve are literally hanging out in your nose

35:27 that's how you smell things And losing sense of Smell. That means that

35:33 endings nerve endings are infected and they're by COVID-19 infections. So you have

35:42 Bosnia and ability to smell anything if have a goose to inability to taste

35:49 . A lack of taste is because a viral infection on the taste receptors

35:53 are located in your mouth too. virus coming in through the Nasal

36:00 All the guys that are over 65 think that they don't need to wear

36:04 over their noses. Mhm. But what happens is that the virus can

36:12 in and you can see this this in the skull. It's called crib

36:17 formation crystal galley. And you can these tiny little administrations. These are

36:26 little holes in this path, the of the skull here and this is

36:33 the nerve endings enter through these tiny is the place of the skull gets

36:40 thin in this crew perform formation here through these demonstrations you have the nerve

36:47 going into the factory bulb which processes sense of smell smell information. And

36:55 is how virus can enter into the . Now you can have hypoxia which

37:03 lack of oxygen, hippo oxygenation because have a viral infection in the lungs

37:12 that can compromise blood brain barrier that allow for the virus stamped into the

37:18 SARS-COv-2 ice through a stew receptors on tissue. So ace to the South

37:25 receptor angiotensin converting enzyme to it's present many different organs in the brain but

37:31 also found in the cns used to in the CMS. This is why

37:38 so nasty. First of all these receptors are this and biophilia lining.

37:42 this is the blood, this is epithelial cells that comprise the blood vessels

37:48 these are the surrounding ostracized glial cells the brain network. And this is

37:54 the barrier that controls what things can from the blood into the brain

38:01 What it can do is actually can on today's two receptors on this and

38:06 cell walls, essentially bringing it very through the blood brain barrier. And

38:13 invasion happens to blood brain barrier and wheel cells are neurons contain ace two

38:20 , both real cells and neurons actually infected. And then the virus takes

38:26 the genetic machinery of these cells. there's a lot of information on this

38:33 I'd like to focus on what's happening the peripheral nervous system announced me and

38:42 do see a loss of taste, of smell, You have major

38:46 you can have uh getting on boston , more efficient syndrome. Going to

38:52 vertigo also. But this is more essential side. If you have main

38:58 of headache and vertigo, you have neuron faction. Then the major symptoms

39:04 stroke. Meningitis acute necrotic into philosophy brain hemorrhaging brain bleeding. Yeah.

39:19 what's what's what's happening acute necrotizing As philosophy is basically a viral infection that

39:26 can happen and you can have the is not just because of coded

39:31 you can have a tick that by of politic, viral infection from the

39:36 can have viral infection. Meningitis can bacterial viral infections and all of these

39:43 and other organisms will try to hang and penetrate into your body in the

39:49 . Mm. And what happens if penetrates into the brain? And you

39:54 accurate necrotizing? It's a philosophy. have information in the brain necrotizing refers

40:00 necrosis or cell death but not not programmed cell death, but basically

40:09 viral induced cell death of neurons and . I'll come back to you in

40:14 second. So it's a philosophy and a fill itis information of the

40:22 It's a fill itis as a philosophy lead to anatomical dysfunctions. Not just

40:29 can lead to seizures. Apple, now all of these secondary things.

40:34 stroke, there is lack of oxygen the neurons in the brain are exquisitely

40:41 to oxygen. If you lose supply neurons for two minutes, neurons are

40:50 . That's why when somebody, when heart stops for longer than two minutes

40:54 they get revived and if it's more two minutes you don't know what what

41:01 of a state that person is going come back and are they going to

41:04 paralyzed and they're going to be a ? Are they going to have difficulty

41:09 one side of the body? They not have issues or they may just

41:14 dizzy for a very long time. two minutes. So if you're cutting

41:19 that oxygen supply slowly from the it's bad news. And if it's

41:26 it's there and it's not getting enough yourself, they go into and a

41:36 situation, we have post infectious neurological , Neurological abnormalities have been described at

41:47 of patients were required hospitalization, 45% those severe respiratory illness and 85% of

41:56 with er Diaz So this is it just happens to some people,

42:04 have one third of the people that up and if you end up in

42:08 intensive care, you have intensive care neurological manifestations because it's a different beast

42:13 you're in intensive care and you're in , you get intubated. If you

42:19 out of it, half of your from being an intensive care, the

42:22 half is from the virus that experience is very traumatizing to. So keep

42:32 in mind That virus, even if are 65 or taller still gives them

42:38 your nose. Mhm. Uh keep mind that uh it looks like antibodies

42:48 either Vaccination or exposure to go that about 6-8 months or so. So

42:59 was vaccinated in March and I am about doing another vaccine because my antibodies

43:07 probably very low right now. And heard today analysis on the news that

43:16 that have received fighter shot the 3rd somehow they have very high antibody

43:23 So maybe it's the three shots that to get really high antibody level and

43:28 immunity. Don't know right so keep of these things in mind that the

43:37 is in the air that we will with caution that this is a neuro

43:42 course. And so this is your of thinking about everything about the

43:48 about the neuro different parts of the and how potentially this virus can can

43:55 with different elements. And again, we come back at the end of

43:59 course and have a little bit more will understand how it really a lot

44:05 details within the context of neurons and inflammation and so fill itis and so

44:12 . Have a great afternoon and I see you either here or on zoom

44:17 thursday. Yeah. Uh

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