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00:02 this is neuroscience lecture one and this a slide that I showed at the

00:07 of the course similar in the middle the course and toward the end of

00:11 course and I want you to look the slide And I'm not gonna talk

00:18 about 30 seconds and I want you think about what you think is in

00:24 slide. And quite honestly it's a of pretty pictures of the brain

00:43 But when you're gonna look at the in the middle of the course of

00:47 , at the end of the course gonna have a different perception on the

00:51 slide Because with this image depicts on neurons that are connected to each other

01:01 the selma's and their specialized processes called rides through other specialized processes called

01:09 These axons are insulated and myelin ated that then contacted the neurons and they

01:17 neurotransmitter. So axons will produce action is very fast electrical sparks. And

01:26 sparks will cause the release of the in the synapse. And that neurotransmitter

01:32 bind to the post synaptic receptors on neuron influencing the activity for the state

01:41 excitability in that particular neuron. And single neuron can receive Up to 150,000

01:54 and a single neuron at any given could be activated by thousands of

02:02 And some of these synopses are excitatory release excitatory neurotransmitter and they make this

02:08 more excitable and some of the neurons synopses are inhibitory. So this neuron

02:17 receive thousands of excitatory stimuli saying hey know we want you to be excited

02:22 some other part of the brain or outside stimuli, external stimuli,

02:27 stimuli. And this neuron will also receiving inhibitory input, saying hey dampen

02:35 activity. Don't be as excited within . This cell will decide whether it's

02:42 enough to produce an action potential or . If it is excited enough to

02:47 an action potential, it will communicate information through its processes into the network

02:54 neurons that it is connected to saying will get excited here and I'm going

02:59 tell you they got excited. So information now from the retina gets sent

03:05 other center in your brain that processes information in the third center and the

03:09 5th 6th, 7th 8th. Until engage all of the elements in the

03:15 networks that are formed the circuits and networks, their electrochemical circuits and then

03:25 of cells and their nuclei of And within these nuclei the cells are

03:30 the same or similar functions. Let's they're performing the function of looking at

03:37 . They're performing the function of the like auditory cells. So you have

03:43 complex networks and neurons that are present the brain are surrounded by glial

03:49 Real South play a supporting role for . They also influence the formation of

03:55 synapses and neurons the migration of neurons the right locations. Control of the

04:03 amounts and synthesis of the major excited neurotransmitter glutamate that's controlled by glia.

04:10 there are different subtypes of neurons approximately 14,020 different subtypes of neurons. And

04:18 is multiple subtypes seven or eight different of glial cells. So you will

04:24 about these individual elements and their functions in particular about how neurons are capable

04:31 generating action potentials and communicating with each . Of course these neurons and circuits

04:39 part of the central nervous system which comprised of the brain and the spinal

04:45 . And if you look in the and the skull and the brain,

04:50 have the major divisions into the the frontal lobe, the parietal

04:56 the temporal lobe, the occipital lobe the back of the brain you have

05:01 Ballon have the brain stem onto which cerebellum is attached going into the spinal

05:07 which starts out right beneath your Here we start feeling the vertebra is

05:12 your spinal cord starts in between each will have the spinal nerves coming out

05:18 different lengths of the body on both that allow you to move your hands

05:25 and so on. And this image is the connections. These are all

05:34 the connections, different connectivity in the . The networks each color represents a

05:42 network connecting two different network and having specific function and processing sensor information,

05:52 information, generating thoughts, uh metaphorical , intellectual abilities and all of things

06:04 we experience as humans. Mhm. we'll come back to the slide

06:12 This is the authors of your These are the authors of your bookmark

06:16 , Barrett Connor Cycle, Paradise to beautiful image Again of all of the

06:22 connectivity of the networks in the And these artifacts that are shown on

06:30 slide were found Up to 30,000 or years ago in the prehistoric times.

06:42 these skulls that contain geometrically precise cracks openings in the skull bone are being

06:54 throughout the world. In territory Parka in Peru Egypt Mesopotamia. In this

07:05 30,000 BC archaeologists discovered skulls that contain we call triple nations. These triple

07:15 can be found in multiple areas in brain. So this is one in

07:20 front and one toward the back of brain, occipital load. The archaeological

07:28 suggests that these Triple nations were repeated the same location, meaning that the

07:36 into the brain. The window in skull was opened and closed and reopened

07:42 multiple times. This artifact is a that is the first and original neurosurgery

07:54 to perform these interpretations. And the of this tool depicts three figurines.

08:02 one in the middle is receiving the pronation of the brain. This is

08:09 the neurosurgeon of the time they were Medicine man shaman Crazy man which is

08:20 there's maybe somebody that's caring for that . Let's assume hopefully that there is

08:26 sort of a rudimentary herbal based anesthesia on at the same time. And

08:35 the interpretation for a long time was what does that have to do with

08:42 or with neuroscience is that this is a form of torture. What were

08:50 original interpretations of these procedures? Somebody obsessed with evil spirits and the evil

08:57 make that person mad crazy have to the evil spirits. Where are you

09:06 to release the evil spirits all in head? And the spirit will just

09:13 up and you know, that was someplace up there. Why not from

09:18 feet into the ground? That's a question, right. In reality it

09:24 be an explanation for these things, it was more of a spiritual kind

09:30 a way of dealing with things or or some sort of a belief that

09:35 at the time. But inevitably we to recognize that people had brain

09:42 that people had inflammation and bleeding in brains, that they had fluid build

09:47 in the brain that was causing And the only way you can clear

09:54 hematoma or a basically thickened blood clot the brain is by opening a little

10:03 to the skull and cleaning out the and then closing it. And if

10:08 is coming back, opening again and it up, there are cases of

10:14 where during the early development our skulls soft and if there's abnormal formation of

10:21 fluids, were spinal fluids in the , it will stretch the skulls into

10:27 abnormal shapes. What we are accustomed think of like alien head like

10:33 But the only way to deal with is to make a hole in the

10:38 and drain that fluid to get to ventricles, to get to the sources

10:43 that fluid to drain it. So is very likely that these shaman were

10:49 fact the original neurosurgeons as discovery and in in general and biology and human

11:00 . Human bodies and how the human functions. It's all happening. We

11:05 want to know how the brain functions a long time, including Egyptians.

11:13 thinks that the heart, this is heart is hurting. I have a

11:17 . You know how many poems and is written? I give you my

11:21 . You know, you're giving your really my emotions in my heart.

11:26 know, your emotions are an emotional in the brain. But that was

11:31 it's still, you know, like day, we still give the heart

11:36 be giving brains. I think it be interesting to change that concept.

11:42 in about 1700 to 3000 Bc Edwin from England organizes uh excavations in Egypt

11:55 he discovers what is called uh Edwin , surgical papyrus. But it's really

12:02 papyrus was written by Imhotep. Imhotep uh um empirical or court physician that

12:12 may. So he was serving with with the higher rulers of the land

12:17 the higher rulers of the land. later became the dating designated as a

12:25 . And there's an incredible respect for body. If you are higher up

12:31 the food chain in in in that in Egypt and you die, your

12:37 is not discarded, your body is , you get modified. This is

12:42 ultimate, The body doesn't get cut in pieces. You get mummified during

12:48 mummification process. You're being preserved. fluids are being pumped into you to

12:56 the organs because this is a part is important to stay with you whether

13:00 going into the underworld the other world wherever was the thinking the emperors are

13:07 at the time. Uh the brain not perceived as an important organ by

13:14 . It is called the marrow of skull. And it is literally scooped

13:18 through the nose with these tools during embalming process. And some of the

13:25 like the british Museum in London Natural Museum, I think in new

13:30 we have some of these tools that showing that Egyptians were using to scoop

13:36 the brain through the nose. It's really accepted that you can take your

13:41 body and you can post mortem you , open their skull and cut their

13:48 and this is not allowed to do that time. Imhotep is a physician

13:56 he walks around and he sees massive being built these boulders that are falling

14:02 crushing people crushing their skulls, their , their legs, abdomens, organs

14:08 out. And this is how he the anatomy, He studies the anatomy

14:14 he studies the consequences of injuries. there are 48 injury cases in the

14:20 Smith Surgical Papyrus, 27 of them head trauma cases. He's very interested

14:26 what the head is doing despite the that the brain is not that important

14:30 not only that he notices that injury the head can have distal effects in

14:36 body. What do I mean by ? You have a severe injury in

14:43 murder cortex on one side of the , you're not gonna be able to

14:48 your hand on the opposite side of body. So he recognizes that an

14:55 to the head has to do something the distal effect. There's some connection

15:00 here and the hand or the leg the back and so forth. Um

15:08 creates a treatment classification system. Ailment be treated may be treated not to

15:14 treated. Some of it was priority on your status, but if you

15:19 in the field then there were wars on, The construction is going on

15:25 going on. There's a lot of that are messy. A lot of

15:28 are dying. There's a lot of exposed. There's also need for medical

15:32 . But you cannot treat everybody because people not to be treated because their

15:38 are untreatable there. They've gone too . Maybe in modern medicine, we

15:44 have such a classification. We have triage system. So you typically

15:48 if you walk into some medical there's a triage nurse and triage nurse

15:55 take your vitals, will understand what's on. You know, you have

16:00 nice stuck in your stomach. You usually see a triage nurse. You

16:04 into the icy into surgery immediately to treated. You come in. I'm

16:09 sure what's going on. I have headache, I'm coughing sit for two

16:13 and wait your turn. You that's to be treated a little

16:17 But I want to make you think something. Do you remember when COVID

16:24 in in 2020 in March of 2020 it seemed like some war started in

16:34 people were dying in the hospitals near york was the first sight of the

16:41 the pandemic in the United States. days before I was in Times Square

16:47 all of the store literally actually a before the day before. Um and

16:56 dark times came upon us. It really scary actually. You know,

17:00 isolation was one thing, but not this virus how it can spread,

17:06 all of the precautions. And so happened to people that have chronic illnesses

17:12 needed to do a surgery for their veins. That's not an option.

17:18 was not an option. The hospital the healthcare systems were strained to the

17:24 the pathway was to save the I see you respirators, other people

17:31 the hospital. If you don't need be there urgently, don't go because

17:35 may actually end up in the ICU get infected. So well, it

17:41 really tough time and it actually questioned . This system that we have as

17:47 . And also think about the system we have actually as humans. The

17:51 to have insurance. You don't have change privilege. You have really good

17:59 or you don't have a very good . You can pay for treatments with

18:05 . You cannot pay for treatments in country without insurance. There are certain

18:10 and things. So there is there a status still in healthcare.

18:17 And you know what I always felt dark. The patient is always as

18:21 as the patient is. You have be the best patient in order to

18:27 get treated the best. So now is looking into the windows and these

18:34 skulls and it's trying to describe the . So he put some graphic descriptions

18:39 the brain here. There's two There's some there's something here that is

18:46 related to fluid. There's something else on here. There's convolution. So

18:52 brain surface is not smooth. And is depicting these convolutions that he sees

18:56 the brain surface. We know them salsa and Desiree. It describes the

19:03 that surrounds the brain. So these the matters, the dura mater,

19:09 meninges that surround the brain and protect brain. There's some fluid here.

19:15 there some something is pouring the So, you suspect maybe there's a

19:19 of that fluid going on someplace and is that fluid here, you

19:25 I'm sorry, that membrane is being an umbrella here and here,

19:28 There's maybe like foreign of the fluid is somehow, I don't know,

19:37 the brain that has some sort of loop around the brain or something like

19:41 . That's what that's what he's able glimpse at. When he's looking at

19:46 of these brutal, gruesome cases of open skulls following traumatic brain injuries.

19:58 in ancient Greece, we have the of the modern medicine which is Hippocratic

20:05 . So when you finish medical you give the oath, the oath

20:09 Hippocrates or if you enter into a association, sometimes you have to give

20:14 oath of the properties and that's really help and serve the people to to

20:19 the people, uh compassion and So, Hippocrates thinks that brain is

20:26 major controlling organ center of the body this is the change from Egyptians that

20:32 bought the heart was the most important . He thinks that brain is the

20:36 of intelligence. Medicine is still a . We call it a craft because

20:44 don't have microscopes because you don't have . L. C. Machines and

20:49 are spectroscopy. But you actually have lot of medicines that are out

20:55 You know that over 80% of pharmaceutical are derived from plants in nature.

21:04 when we discover something in plants in than unfortunately pharmaceutical system then likes to

21:10 it chemically to represent that same model to see in plant of nature.

21:16 in reality a lot of these medicines out there and people are using them

21:21 them as a crap. They just know they don't have pathology and things

21:24 that Aristotle, which is one of most famous philosophers in the world still

21:34 heart. The center of intellect. is an air conditioner off the blood

21:40 body. Again, this theme persists heat rises, spirits rise and I

21:47 dogs sweat through their tongues and human and events through their heads. Air

21:56 in renaissance times. By the way Bc and renaissance times, there's what

22:05 call the Dark Ages and we we . There's a lot of religious prosecutions

22:12 on. Everything gets very very sort a sequestered into religious rule. So

22:18 lands and the world are being ruled by kings and emperors and uh humors

22:31 not treated very nicely and with the rebirth. It's a rebirth of

22:40 It's a rebirth of humanity from the ages. And it's not saying that

22:45 rebirthing ourselves from religion will continue. understand spirituality and religion in different

22:51 but we want to have a more dialogue about it in arts. There

22:57 depictions of the saints in the Western , there's depictions of jesus and his

23:05 , which was not allowed, you try to detect the faces of the

23:12 leaders at the dark ages or if didn't believe in certain things, you

23:21 up like Salem witches, right? wasn't even the middle Ages. But

23:27 , so there's a lot of things on. Um a great movie to

23:32 , if you like Sean Connery, of my favorite movies with him is

23:36 great actor is in the Name of Rose. And it really sets up

23:41 mood for some of those dark times some of the european politics that were

23:47 on and how much they were dominated by religion at the time. And

23:54 the emergence of renaissance, there's emergence arts, there's emergence in music,

23:59 again, sort of like a celebration humanity, There's emergence of arts

24:07 Biology, all of these things become interesting and now encouraged to to be

24:13 . And so Andreas vesalius now depicted has the ability to actually perform anatomical

24:22 . He is allowed, it was allowed until renaissance times to do any

24:27 dissections, it was prohibited in, could not cut another human being.

24:34 so in renaissance times. Andreas vesalius up the brain and he sees these

24:41 what we now call ventricles that contain . He cuts through the brain tissue

24:47 he sees that there's gray areas of brain or we would call gray matter

24:52 there are white areas of the brain we call white matter. He puts

24:57 finger on the gray matter and says feels like a sponge. And he

25:03 his finger on the white matter. a little bit harder. Gray matter

25:08 like a sponge. And he comes with this concept. The sponge is

25:14 all of the information gets absorbed into brain and the gray matter. That's

25:19 what he's postulating. Gray matters where soul most of neurons are located and

25:25 matter are the external projections and the projections that were depicted in other earlier

25:32 in different colors. Huh? So everything is evolving. It's not just

25:42 is involving. Religion is evolving. understanding, spiritual world is evolving our

25:49 of biology, nature is evolving. of human anatomy is evolving. All

25:56 . Everything in this earth evolves. States. The same things that people

26:02 2000 years ago. They only knew because that's what they had available to

26:09 . If they saw a microscope 2000 ago. I think those people would

26:13 the same thing sometimes. I'm not these people, I don't know who

26:18 people are but just any individual that had a cell phone 2000 years

26:24 The microscope an H. P. . C. Machine. The gene

26:30 . So What was written in philosophy based on the best information that was

26:38 2000 years ago. What was written science was based on the best

26:44 Was there at least glimpses and Melinda we understood about black holes right?

26:52 about it. Einstein theory of Black holes. You know how many

27:00 said that he is just a great er lunatic. It doesn't exist.

27:04 just something you calculated on and then want to do they really exist.

27:10 don't know. What are the beautiful pictures showing us. Now look up

27:17 the most recent telescope discovery pictures they're us black holes, swallowing university drawing

27:27 pieces of mass collapsing space time into event horizon. And what comes out

27:35 the other side. We don't know but it's it's so it was not

27:41 but it is there It is So 2000 years ago people knew about

27:45 holes. How would their spiritual spiritual would have changed? How would their

27:51 thinking would have changed? I would been this one in psychology. It

27:58 becomes important to start distinguishing this mind and spirit or something of higher power

28:06 maybe universal and something that we can into bring into inside ourselves. It's

28:11 almost like another sensor stimuli that that cannot really proceed it necessarily the same

28:17 as vision or hearing or others. this mind body distinction is being discussed

28:23 written about in africa, Mesopotamia and the Western world of french,

28:30 philosopher and physiologist Renee. The card the first one to kind of systematically

28:37 to explain an account for his mind body relationship. He initiates a reflex

28:43 . So he recognized that there are behaviors that are reflexive. They're not

28:47 learned. What does that mean? means that if you expose a child

28:52 a candle and that child has never a candle before, does not know

28:59 that flame on the candle wick is put his finger into the candle.

29:07 is that child going to do It's reflexive. It's not it's it's

29:13 already like pre program reflexive behaviors and are behaviors that are fluid mechanic

29:22 behaviors in human bodies. So he to explain human body is a

29:27 uh, fluids and mechanics and movement like different bones and fluids in the

29:35 . That's an attempt to explain the body is a machine. There's an

29:40 attempt now to explain the brain as machine with artificial intelligence and the computers

29:46 the higher powers of computing that we have. So nerves are still perceived

29:54 pipes by rene, ricard meaning that ventricular view of the brain is dominating

30:04 there's fluids in these ventricles and that are nerves going and that these nerves

30:09 be pipes carrying these fluids and then they carry these fluids in the

30:13 something happens like muscle contractions speaking and on. He believes in this thing

30:20 for some reason the connection with body, this basically intellectual ability or

30:27 you may or ability to call upon sort of a spiritual higher powers,

30:35 maybe universal universality ease. He believes comes into the eyes. It's not

30:42 perceived as a spirit that you see contacts onto the pineal gland. Pineal

30:49 is sitting in the middle of the doesn't have a left and right

30:53 All of a sudden things anatomical, pineal gland is the most important one

30:58 this mind body connection, so close with the body. And from there

31:04 is some sort of activation of the and therefore you act in a certain

31:10 . He comes up with cognito ergo , which is I think therefore I

31:17 because when you don't, you don't what happens to you at night.

31:25 always ask For about 68 hours if sleep up. Are you consciously perceiving

31:34 happening around you? Are you thinking brain is internalized? The motor functions

31:41 cut off. What happens when you're anesthesia? Are you there? If

31:51 cannot perceive your own thoughts, you're and cognito ergo sum, I think

32:00 I am In 1780. Luigi Giovanni this theory of nerves are like pipes

32:09 are running some fluid from the brain the periphery. And he starts working

32:15 Laden jar this rotating static electricity If you turn and basically through friction

32:23 create little electrical sparks and he takes frog and he dissected a frog

32:31 exposes a nerve that goes into a and he shocks the nerve and the

32:37 leg contracts. Then he shocks the and the muscle contracts, nerves are

32:46 pipes or channels, nerves can generate . And there are two types of

32:53 tissues in the body that I just that produce action potentials and are excitable

33:00 that's nervous tissue and muscle tissue. that's it. There's a new

33:07 a new understanding that these nerves and may still contain fluids but they have

33:16 inside of them. They are acting like wires that can produce electricity and

33:22 communicate that electricity over distances as is in this image here. Huh?

33:31 are the major divisions of the N. S. Now that we

33:35 and so thank you. Usually go . We that ushered a new era

33:40 of trying to understand the electrical potentials how nerves control muscles and and all

33:48 these details that came from that. we know cns is comprised of the

33:53 which is cerebral cerebellum brainstem and the cord nerves going into the peripheral nervous

34:00 , Major lobes, occipital, frontal, temporal cerebellum. We also

34:08 that all of the sensor information comes the dorsal park in the back and

34:14 enters through the dorsal root ganglion into spinal cord. So all of the

34:19 information from below your neck comes into spinal cord, the dorsal part here

34:25 all of the motor output. Even you said it from here from your

34:29 cortex, say move my left it's my spinal cord through the ventral

34:36 nerve that is moving this arm all , 31 pairs of spinal nerves that

34:44 that, the sensory and motor And they come out in between each

34:49 on each side. So there's a and right, 31 pairs of spinal

34:56 , that's what it's apparent. And we move into this other subject matter

35:03 localization of specific functions of the And what I realized now is that

35:11 been going a little bit slow today I think there's a class here at

35:18 so so I'm actually gonna end the today here because I don't want to

35:23 through the slide. The slide is interesting in this just really three more

35:33 that I was gonna talk about but come back on thursday and I will

35:37 on the same material. Thank you

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