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00:00 Recording in progress. This is lecture of neuroscience and we stopped last lecture

00:09 about U cranial nerves that I just . Again, the important ones for

00:16 . Now, olfactory optic ocular motor and vague ran nerves. Uh So

00:29 is a separate slide presentation on the nerves and the pneumonic by which you

00:34 remember them. And you can also up different other mnemonics that are available

00:40 and in some books and create their pneumonic to remember the order and to

00:46 these uh sensory or motor and potentially function. Because factor is for whole

00:53 . We already talked about it very when we touched upon COVID-19 infections very

00:59 . It was actually on that slide optic because we will cover the visual

01:05 . So we will start talking about comprises the optic nerve, which are

01:09 axons of retinal ganglion cells from the ocular motor because it's motor and it's

01:19 in the nerve itself, what it moves the eye Trigeminal # five because

01:27 want you to be able to recognize nerve stalk. And I want you

01:33 be able to distinguish it from optic , optic and the track. Uh

01:42 are the two largest most prominent cranial that you would see if you were

01:46 expose the brain stem. This to la coa. Number eight, it

01:54 what it does or at least it the source of that nerve vestibular apparatus

02:01 cochlea. So vestibular cochlear, but talk about the auditory system. So

02:07 the nerve that carries information or sound the cochlear component of that. In

02:15 , uh vagas 10, we discovered Coline by stimulating vagus nerve onto a

02:23 heart. That's an important thing to . Also, it runs extensively throughout

02:30 body, innervating the heart and many organs. It's really the most extensive

02:36 innervation wise nerve throughout the bottom. it's important to know it also important

02:42 remember that when of the lowest stimulated nerve, he saw that the heart

02:47 slowed down, although the cty colon a neurotransmitter. And when we studied

02:54 junction, this is also heart is muscle. But when we started the

03:02 muscle junction, you know, muscular , we talked about acetylcholine as being

03:09 a. So don't lose track of fact that all of these things,

03:14 things and nerves and uh what they in neurotransmission. It's still a part

03:22 the larger picture of the nervous system the chemical electrochemical neural transmission in the

03:30 that C MS looking in the spinal , spinal cord is subdivided into

03:38 cervical thoracic lumber and sacred in between vertebrae on each side, on the

03:49 side and the right side, you a spinal, that spinal nerve on

03:55 side is comprised of dorsal Logan axons also motor neuron axons. So those

04:05 the gang would be a or inputs motor neurons would be ears or

04:10 but they all form that one uh spinal nerve on the lobe that then

04:17 itself accordingly. So the, the nerves will take care of the thorax

04:24 . The cervical nerves will take care the uh neck area. So you

04:31 vertebra, you have C one vertebra C seven. That means that there

04:38 seven cervical vertebrae, there are 12 . So you have T one to

04:46 12, there are five, number 13 L five, There's photograph

04:54 S one with a shell of the . So if you look again in

05:06 each vertebra, you have a a spinal nerve that's associated with

05:11 So, C one will have first c uh there's nerve on top,

05:18 actually eight cervical nerves versus seven cervical . Right now. Uh the spinal

05:28 proper, if you look at the of the spinal cord, proper Ends

05:35 one continuous proper structure in about L L 3. And by the

05:41 a lot of times you will hear somebody has an injury in the spine

05:46 the neck, they'll say oh, have a disc in T four,

05:49 five. That's what it means. I have a nerve pie between C

05:55 and C three. In this it means that you have a nerve

06:00 between cervical vertebra two and cervical vertebra . And where are the nerves that

06:08 get pinched in the neck? Between and three? It would be affecting

06:12 neck and also the, the shoulder the arm. For example, would

06:19 move lower to the short thoracic area nerves? Here would be involved in

06:25 information from the thorax, both the and motor information, spinal cord preference

06:33 L two L three. From that onward, it becomes ana as

06:43 as in or the tail and quina an equestrian. So a horse's tail

06:57 Latin called it when now spinal for splits into these fibers and still innervate

07:05 respective areas all the way down to toes. Uh That is important clinically

07:14 if somebody has an infection in the , it is very likely that infection

07:23 it is the case typically is in cerebrospinal fluid. So think about how

07:31 you draw cerebrospinal fluid from an You're not talking about blood, you're

07:37 about getting inside ventricles potentially because this where rubrospinal fluid is. And one

07:45 the best places to draw without Obviously, if you have to draw

07:50 from lateral ventricles or the or the the or the third ventricle, you

07:56 have to penetrate through the brain So typically people do what is called

08:02 spinal tap. A spinal tap is you tap in to the area of

08:09 spine to sample cerebra spinal fluid. you can draw a little bit of

08:15 cerebral spinal fluid and whatever you find that cerebrospinal fluid, for example,

08:22 meningitis infection, you suspect a a person, an adult has mening

08:30 infection. By that virtue, you be able, it's an infection of

08:35 brain should be able to find the agents in the spinal fluid. So

08:44 confirm, you would have to draw serious spinal fluid and I will show

08:51 the presence of mano Coco and let's it can be viral or bacterial in

08:57 case of London Jarvis. So you put a soft needle right below two

09:03 three below the spinal cord proper in the virus and try to sample some

09:09 the spinal fluid. Also for anesthesia , during the birthing process. When

09:17 female is giving birth to a it is typically very painful and the

09:27 and the displacement, physical displacement of the body parts is very painful.

09:35 now there's some dual anesthesia that is and typically, again, it's given

09:42 this lumber level, the low spinal proper so that it doesn't spread and

09:49 anesthetize the rest of the upper which rather takes away the the,

09:55 pain, the feeling in the low of the body that's responsible for

10:01 the muscles that are contracting and that's most of the pain is. Was

10:05 often. Uh women that get the anesthesia, they also cannot move their

10:13 because it can affect the, the lower extremities and it not,

10:18 move them forever. It's just for couple of hours as anesthesia kicks in

10:22 then basically the birth happens and anesthesia off. Yeah. Now this is

10:30 components of the spinal cord and the nerves. Again, one spinal nerve

10:35 between each vertebra is comprised of the reg gari component and the motor nerve

10:41 component. Uh If you look at anatomy of the final cord, it's

10:47 of a you think that sometimes people it like a maybe butterfly inside the

10:55 cord or sometimes it's referred to as . So everything that's dark here that

11:01 seeing, this is the gray gray matter or surrounding white matter are

11:09 axons. Those are the ascending and axons. Ascending information will be mostly

11:16 through dorsal columns right here on the side of the, of the spinal

11:22 . That means that all of the from your, from your to from

11:30 neck area is carried into the dorsal and it's carried up that column.

11:38 lower extremities, it goes into the column. Those fibers are running up

11:42 spinal cord to wherever they are going , which is going to be eventually

11:48 to the neocortex and not a sensory . And the way it's going to

11:54 the Methalen and some other things that will learn when we study this amount

11:58 sensory system. So you have these horns in the back, dorsal horns

12:04 where you have the uh location of , of the SOMA. That's where

12:10 inputs also coming in contacting motor neurons contacting into neurons that are located

12:19 Ventral horn will contain a lot of so of the motor numbers and that's

12:24 the output comes out of the motor uh uh in the ventral. So

12:29 comes in the dorsal side climbs it gets processed through the SOMA cell

12:34 and comes out on the ventral So you have the ventral horn and

12:40 have the ventral column, then you the lateral column which is on,

12:46 , on, on both sides, . And some people would also designate

12:53 as a lateral horn. It's another of a gray matter of division within

12:59 spinal cord. It's protected by the protective meninges that we talked about.

13:04 is the ventral side and the back the dorsal side. So the major

13:11 information is sensory information that means touch heat, pain, itch mosquito

13:20 ok. That goes into the spinal , dorsal organum and is carried out

13:27 the ascending the sensory pathways and mostly dorsal colum. Uh path is

13:35 there is one pathway here, a guess where it originates in the

13:42 guess where it is traveling the Ok. So from spine to

13:47 Ok. So these are the ascending package. Now, there's a lot

13:55 descending motor pathways. So everything the down, those are motor pathways.

14:01 the sensor information, somebody touched you up the dorsal column informs, informs

14:09 Alaus informs the cortex. You have perception of somebody stopping you on the

14:15 . What are you gonna do You're gonna produce a motor command.

14:20 then it's gonna produce the motor command the motor cortex and through the descending

14:27 . And there are many different descending . I don't want you to know

14:30 for the exam, but I want to know the ascending dorsal column because

14:34 a major sensory pathway. We study part of this amount of sensory

14:39 But this corticospinal tract ribo spinal car the jewelry ridiculous spinal tract, tectospinal

14:47 , different origins ending up vestibular spinal . And again, some of them

14:53 say, indicate what they do. tibula spinal tract is important for vestibular

14:59 . Why is that important for spinal and motor output? Because it's important

15:03 your posture and gait and what your is doing with the motor output.

15:08 all of these are different motor out . So everything is a sensing,

15:12 sensory, everything descending is motor. once your cortex makes, makes that

15:19 , hey, somebody tapping on the up, you're gonna turn and shake

15:22 hand. That command comes from your travels down into the spinal cord,

15:28 adjusted potentially by cerebellum. And then motor neurons activate the movement of the

15:36 , the contraction of the muscles on intent to shake somebody's hand.

15:42 We have autonomic peripheral nervous system, we don't spend much time talking about

15:48 we will spend a little bit of talking about the imaging of the

15:52 Now, most of you are familiar imaging and as far as x-rays,

15:58 you go to a dentist's office, do an x-ray if you want uh

16:05 years ago. They were kind of not as advanced as 10 years

16:10 10 years from now, there will even more advanced, but you get

16:13 x-ray done and it shows you your and it shows the cavities and it

16:21 any fillings, any crowns you have it shows something around it. So

16:27 focus there is the bone structure or heart structure that that starts.

16:33 we are here uh and neuroscientists and interested in imaging, first of all

16:39 tissue and second of all, we're in imaging brain activity on that brain

16:48 . So, a more advanced uh imaging that you have these days is

16:54 T of computer tomography. It can pretty well. Between the soft tissue

17:00 the fluid filled gaps or tissues or and, and the bone structure

17:07 And it's a sophisticated three dimensional It still uses x-ray beams, But

17:14 can be in three dimensions. It really nicely recreate an area of interest

17:20 three dimensions by doing these x-rays at planes or slices we call them and

17:28 up to hundreds, 200 300 slices a small area of the brain.

17:34 example, that will reveal a lot what's happening in there with a certain

17:40 on the on the spatial resolution. you also hear a Mara or magnetic

17:47 of injury. And magnetic resonance imaging not use x-ray depending on the technology

18:00 it. And the power uh of that are being used for magnetic magnetic

18:08 imaging. Uh MRI may have more than C T you're looking there at

18:19 spin and resonance of the of the atoms. It's based partly on on

18:29 physics. It is actually based on physics and some parts of quantum

18:34 we we can't really explain very well there is a different spin on the

18:39 atoms and MRI. So MRI again , will reveal really well the soft

18:48 like the brain tissue, different parts that you're imaging and you can see

18:56 lot but neither one of these techniques C T scans or MRI reveal anything

19:07 the function. It is all about structure of the bone structure of the

19:14 . How big is the cyst is uh uh cancer's growth in the in

19:19 brain? Right. So it's all structure we're interested in imaging function.

19:29 when we talked about uh experimental neuroscience , for example, when we talked

19:34 neural transmission, I brought up this imaging technique and they said, oh

19:39 are calcium sensitive dye. So you image fluxes of calcium. We also

19:46 , oh you can image single you can record from single cells.

19:51 have very high resolution with different But now you're placed in a clinical

19:58 where a patient comes in and says have this tremendous headache and the head

20:03 is helping me. Uh an x-ray not showing much. I'm starting to

20:09 seizures. You don't have the ability put an electrode inside their brain.

20:15 me just check real quick, open skull, put an electrode, take

20:21 recording, send them home, you it doesn't exist. So what,

20:27 do you wanna do? And what you do? You can do noninvasive

20:32 techniques. And those are pat which poor AIS to tomography and F M

20:39 and C T and and C T MRI are noninvasive meaning that that you

20:47 placed in the machine. The machine a scan of U C T scan

20:51 MRI which is a more complex OK? But uh during it's non

20:59 , nobody's putting an electrode inside your , opening your skull or anything of

21:04 sort. But we want to know function so that patient was having

21:11 for example. And maybe there's something the function of that area or maybe

21:18 abnormal growth and there's abnormal activity around area. To me, activity of

21:23 brain you need pattern am active neurons demand more blood to be supplied to

21:31 active area of the brain. So we saw from uh lecture one or

21:35 images, we said, look at brain maps that show a person is

21:40 at the words and their exhibit lobe activated and we saw it as a

21:43 map of the exhibit lobe. Then said the person is reading uh uh

21:49 mean looking at the words, the is thinking about the words and there

21:52 a different map that was activated, was activity map. Those were pet

21:57 measurements of brain activity. And because active regions are the ones that are

22:03 in looking, they're gonna be demanding oxygen, they're gonna be demanding more

22:09 and they're gonna be demanding more The cells are increasing their metabolism,

22:17 metabolism in the areas that are active a particular task. And that's how

22:22 have these regional brain activity mass that can see on the pet scans.

22:27 can see them with F MRI MRI is hydrogen atom one proton.

22:34 goes between high energy or low energy . The frequency at which low state

22:40 absorb energy is called resonant frequencies. this bouncing between high and low state

22:48 the resonance frequencies. So that's where have the F and R F is

22:57 R is resonant. So F MRI is functional magnetic resonance imaging and radio

23:07 get emitted by protons that can then collected by very sophisticated uh electromagnetic

23:18 So for pet scan, for pet , you have positive emission tomography.

23:28 if you want to image with pet a subject, the person or patient

23:35 injected with radioactively labeled solution with positively ions. It's I V injection.

23:48 people say, and they a lot times don't know but these procedures are

23:55 pretty uh difficult on many patients. not the same as x-ray. So

24:04 not like you stand and the machine around you and oh, you

24:08 we'll have to repeat this. Oh know, five minutes later, 10

24:11 later you're out that scan, you injected into bloodstreams with radioactive label.

24:19 now are radioactive, radioactive. And you have to sit there for

24:29 half an hour, please. And you sit there for half an

24:34 you cannot be in the presence of individual because you are radioactive.

24:41 Literally. So you wait a half hour and then you go into these

24:49 under these machines and depending now we're about the brain. So your head

24:54 into this machine and a lot of may have issues with it.

24:59 first of all, the actual injection radioactive label, what happens to radioactive

25:05 to these isotopes? They get they get processed, they get filtered

25:11 of the blood. What are the that would be involved in that?

25:16 ? Liver? What if somebody has kidney in their own dialysis? It's

25:24 huge issue, right? And they not even be able to do this

25:28 . What if somebody has weak liver liver cirrhosis? Again, they would

25:33 weighing their options, whether this is procedure that they can do. What

25:36 that person is a child And you to make them lay down and lay

25:43 still for 40 minutes beside that it's very difficult. So some people

25:49 even have to get sedated to go this process. Yeah. How come

25:55 cross the, not, not, does it cross the blood brain

26:03 Well, I mean, it's, small enough and they're often designed so

26:07 they easily cross the blood brain So you would use definitely an imaging

26:13 you would use molecules to cross into brain. So uh they're usually typically

26:21 , very small or they may have that facilitates uh lipid soil to cross

26:27 blood brain barrier from the blood But typically it it's a systemic

26:34 That means your whole body is That means it's penetrating everywhere. And

26:39 scans are not limited to just the . People will do pet scans and

26:44 scans. If they're looking for spinal issues, pinched nerve and they may

26:50 MRI. But if they have cancer , suspected cancer growth, they may

26:56 in clinical setting, a physician may you need an MRI, not necessarily

27:02 MRI, but you need MRI and need pet scan. So they will

27:08 to draw as much inflammation as In some instances, pet may show

27:13 better that MRI. So inflammation may associated better with cancer's growth. The

27:21 may not show that inflammation as the . So doctors again because this country

27:29 so expensive with health insurance access, ? How much you can afford?

27:35 primary is gonna say no, your is gonna say no to something you

27:40 afford. So you have to weigh of these options. But a lot

27:43 times you have a serious disease, condition, you will do multiple

27:47 You will do pet scan, you do MRI C T or just to

27:53 to resolve more detail, try to more because you really are. There's

27:58 such thing as you walk into the office and rarely, it's like,

28:04 , this is us, this is definitive diagnosis. This is it,

28:07 just did some test results or something that. It's usually a quest and

28:13 a person finds something they try to what, what it is more

28:19 let's say, found the grows. you want to know it uh malignant

28:23 is it be, you know, do you do to do that?

28:27 know, you have to do your , you have to do scans,

28:29 have to do this, you so it's, it's a combination of

28:32 things. But so now you go the coil and you stay there for

28:37 minutes, half an hour, imaging activity which is protons, electrons and

28:44 radiation in the form of protons, gets picked up by these coils.

28:49 in pet, you're looking at glucose . So a lot of times you're

28:54 at the levels of two deoxy glucose and oxygenated glucose. In F

29:04 you are looking at oxygenated or deoxygenated levels. So the difference is F

29:13 . Both are functional pet and F . Both functional C T and x-rays

29:19 not as regular MRI is not functional at revealing details in tissue. But

29:26 MRI and pat are two functional techniques imaging brain activity. One is glucose

29:34 . Another one is oxyhemoglobin, the , they are a lot more sophisticated

29:41 spinoffs of these general imaging tools that mentioning here. There are tools by

29:49 markers could be imaged with specific neurotransmitter could be imaged using these techniques.

29:55 of them are already in practice others in sort of a clinical trial

30:03 But now let's say you have a in either F MRI or a

30:09 you tell them to look at an , let's say, or do something

30:16 . But let's say you, you stimulate them, you give them

30:19 sort of a stimulus and you see this part of the brain is activated

30:22 the stimulus. So you image their as you're stimulating their brain. It

30:28 matter what the stimulus is, you listen to music, you can think

30:31 something you can have to solve a and then you do the same scan

30:36 the same image where you tell the stop that task, whatever the task

30:40 looking, listening, you know, just try to kind of be in

30:44 moment. It's actually called a very , it's called sentinel state or

30:51 In this case, it's control. is a very interesting term. It's

30:54 soldier on duty, right? And soldier is on duty on guard is

31:00 soldier actively emboldened doing something. they're on duty, they own guard

31:06 they may be completely still and sitting , right? But they're still doing

31:10 . So the brain even if it's doing something, even if it's still

31:14 is still doing something. So in conditions, you still see these heat

31:20 , these activity maps that are here red, those maps are different from

31:26 . You can take the data during simulation data during the control imaging and

31:31 the two. And this shows you difference that during this task during the

31:36 task, this is what was different that this part of the brain was

31:40 specifically during the stimulation patch. Now have a really nice what we call

31:45 map of activity. OK. That you the map of where the neurons

31:51 acting. Can you get to a cell level? No, the answer

31:58 no, you cannot image a single using pet scan or am you cannot

32:05 activity of a single neuron. You image activities from square cubed millimeters or

32:13 centimeters. Those are the scales geo imaging. If you recall the average

32:21 of a neuron is 10 micrometers 10 of the minus six Uh and

32:28 Cube Millimeter, one millimeter is 1000 . So you could stack 100 cells

32:35 to each other if it was Uh and then if you go in

32:39 dimensions, 100 cells and 100 So you're talking about thousands of cells

32:49 that are active, each one of will then represent a pixel. Because

32:55 still imaging, you're still converting into visual image or digital display, which

33:00 a a pixel. So in the , we can stab those cells and

33:10 them and process them and record activity image dendritic spines and uncaged neurotransmitters in

33:17 single spine level. And in the , it's not invasive because nobody's cutting

33:26 it except injecting radioactive labeled materials is invasive for, for, for your

33:32 in any case, not the actual , but it's, it's a toll

33:36 your body. Let's put it this . So, uh how can we

33:41 the 2? How can we get a single cell resolution to effuse cell

33:51 in a clinical setting? We need call upon the unidentified flying, unidentified

34:00 objects or we need to engage all you because I am hoping that one

34:09 my students is gonna come up with really cool optical imaging method that can

34:17 at a resolution of a single sound the way to these more generalized brain

34:24 . So let's say this is not task, but this is a

34:30 Let's say this is a pathological pathological activity. It's not a task

34:35 looking or thinking pathological activity. What comes to mind when you see this

34:41 here and this area may involve hundreds millions of cells. So, you

34:50 , in the crowd, there's usually or two troublemakers, the start things

34:55 then things go back from there, . Soccer. So, right.

35:03 um OK, so what do you to know? I wanna know the

35:12 troublemakers in the, in, in , in this hundreds of millions of

35:18 , I wanna find the the two that are most active during a task

35:24 during a pathology. In this I wanna know if these neurons express

35:30 neurotransmitters like gab or glutamate or something . So, you know, in

35:39 there was x-ray crystallography and you had primary investigator, a postdoc and two

35:47 students trapping a protein and a crystal using x-rays to expose a structure of

35:57 protein. Five years of work for or five people. Now we have

36:04 intelligence but based on all of this working that humans did, don't,

36:10 get me wrong. It didn't just up with artificial intelligence can solve The

36:19 in about 20 minutes or unknown new proteins based on all of this

36:26 work by hundreds thousands of postdocs around world, graduate students, undergraduate students

36:33 professors and trying to solve a different structure. So that was not possible

36:42 1990s, if you told somebody that you're doing here for five years may

36:46 this machine 20 minutes. You you would probably stop doing it.

36:52 except that it wasn't there. And you did 20 years ago, 30

36:57 ago contributed to that machine and that intelligence that now can solve that protein

37:02 that that that reveal that protein structure 20 minutes. So there is

37:08 there is hope, I I hope is hope in solving this in this

37:16 that we could potentially get the resolution a single neuron, noninvasive in a

37:21 setting almost at the same level as do. In experimental neuroscience. And

37:27 it will take artificial intelligence, maybe will take a lot of different technological

37:32 . But that would be amazing. could visualize a single cell from the

37:39 that is non invasive and, and with the larger network issues or pathologies

37:46 functions and things like that. So here we end uh talking about

37:52 C N S and we move in start talking about the visual system and

38:02 have a series of lectures on the system. I believe we have three

38:07 scheduled. If I'm not mistaken, may have uh a little bit behind

38:12 the actual syllabus. We'll see where are before one. But introduction to

38:17 visual system. Let's go to this . Now, this is a portion

38:25 visual system that is coming in what a system, a system is not

38:31 thing, a system is collection of parts of the brain and organs and

38:38 that are involved in receiving the visual , processing the visual information, communicating

38:51 visual information and tying that visual information we talked about to its own association

38:56 . Remember guys, we talk about secondary cur. So here you have

39:01 uh V one and V two. is primary is V one, secondary

39:06 V two. So in each V one is a pretty simple understanding

39:12 the visual cortex of the outside And V two is more complex understanding

39:17 V three, it's more complex And then after you had a visual

39:23 with what you've stored in your you also associate the visual input with

39:31 else with auditory olfactory somatic sensory, producing a motor output or an intellectual

39:42 in your head that does not have motor output. So in the visual

39:49 , information enters into the high, information gets processed into the retina in

39:55 back of the eye, there are major pathways M N P that carry

40:01 information outside of the retina in the of optic nerve, two cranial nerve

40:08 , after the fibers cross over, becomes optic track and optic track projects

40:12 both sides. The left side, left side, right side, uh

40:16 lateral genius of the thalamus and the the that information projects into G one

40:27 visual cortex. In the exhibit lobe , we have two major splits here

40:36 the pathway that is going through your blow here, inferior temporal cortex called

40:46 , inferior temporal cole. And that is concerned with color processing and it's

40:54 with form and it's concerned this area with death. So this is the

41:01 what this means. And this area is close to the auditory area.

41:09 sounds now that get processed in the area in the temporal lobe. As

41:15 looking at the color, you may hearing some sound and you will associate

41:19 two through these pathways here. The pathway goes into posterior parietal cortex and

41:29 dorsal parietal pathway. And it's concerned motion and death processing some form.

41:38 motion, motion, this is moving . Uh so matter of sensory and

41:45 cortex is right because as something that perceiving is moving, it requires of

41:53 to do what potential it's a right? As you perceive a car

42:01 is moving at you, your next is going to be I'm gonna get

42:05 of the way the move. So now the motion perception is going to

42:12 traveling to the to the area of brain and the primary motor cortex here

42:16 other areas that will associate it according the reaction, the perception of that

42:21 and then the reaction of that motion that's a visual system. And that's

42:26 a portion of that visual system because at least 17 different areas that process

42:32 information. So we're just touching the of it. But by the time

42:37 finish the visual system in this you will understand how at the level

42:41 the primary visual cortex in V we actually form a perception what we

42:49 a primal sketch or rudimentary sketch of information of the visual world that we

43:00 . Yeah, so that's what a is. And so we have visual

43:05 , we have auditory system, remember auditory system, we had pathways that

43:11 went into thalamus. We mentioned the called M G N medial genu nucleus

43:17 we looked at thalamus. So it its own nuclei, it has its

43:21 pathways and auditory signal is gonna end in the auditory cortex in the temporal

43:28 . Oh So before we understand the of the information, we have to

43:34 the anatomy and physical properties of But let's go back here and talk

43:42 these things a little bit. There's German term gestalt which is configuration reform

43:47 it's a configuration reform as a So not just one thing, one

43:54 but as a whole as it fits your visual perception. What we see

44:00 properties of objects and the organization of by the brain. What we see

44:06 the matter that we observed, we process information and 400 to 700 nanometer

44:23 . Does that mean nothing exists in infrared world? And ultraviolent world are

44:33 that dwell in those frequencies and live them? What is, what is

44:39 world look like? Is a world of color? Does it look like

44:46 map? Does it look like a map? What is it? We

44:53 know because we don't perceive it. so I'm gonna share something really,

44:59 cool with you that happened to me Sunday, I went to um intimate

45:08 given by one of the probably most um meditation psychology Psychotherapy Psychiatry. A

45:29 doctor by the name of Deepak He's written only about 90 books.

45:38 you don't know this man or anything his work. This is the man

45:45 is trying to advance the humanity in understanding of what we are as human

45:52 . How can we explain the world the 400-700 nm of wavelength that we

45:58 visually or other limitations that we perceive , which is 20 Hz to 20

46:07 range. This is our range of on this planet. And what happened

46:16 he gave a lecture where he talked things that I'm gonna introduce to you

46:21 not gonna be on the test for next like five minutes or so of

46:25 spiel, I'm gonna be on on the test. But so Deepak

46:33 is very heavily involved in understanding human , human brain, human existence,

46:43 , human spirituality, evolution of human . OK. And I asked them

46:53 question that was related to what you about. You talked about a couple

46:56 things. Um So meta may have on metaverse. It turned into a

47:06 device, another gaming device. But Chopra talked about psychedelics and psychedelic

47:15 which is really interesting because psychedelic therapy anti addiction therapy. It's therapy to

47:22 with emotional distress with post traumatic stress , alcoholism, all of these

47:29 And it's right now actually in clinical for many different conditions and they're

47:36 they're turning out to be superior to reuptake inhibitors. So you guys know

47:42 that is. Serotonin re uptake Ok. So things like PROzac that

47:48 the presence of serotonin. All we talked about it when we talked

47:53 serotonin. So you have that and is a physical thing. Psychedelic is

47:59 a substance that you take in a fashion, under supervised protocols that are

48:04 developed for psychedelic therapy, supervised by and people that know and understand different

48:14 substances such as slain, which comes mushrooms. And then he said,

48:22 know about this thing called metabolics and had their ears perked up. What

48:29 metabolic? So Trump said there, is a virtual reality world that influences

48:39 physical life. So there are studies if a person has a burn on

48:46 hand and they are overheating and they're in virtual reality, that's freezing,

48:55 body temperature goes down and the temperature around the wound also decreases. That's

49:04 that came from somebody's mind being exposed virtual reality. Didn't come from a

49:13 compra compress or, or cold press claim ha it came from somebody thinking

49:20 they're in a cold environment, in thinking those thoughts affected their physical

49:30 And we do that, we have power of the mind to do

49:35 So there were three questions that were Uh deep chakra. They gave the

49:42 question to me and I was sitting him maybe like if you're sitting for

49:47 like 10 ft. And so I really interested in what he thinks will

49:52 the next evolution of the human Where are we going and what is

50:00 to help us accomplish to evolve and the next next stage? What is

50:07 next stage? What is the next for those humans and brain anatomy is

50:12 the camp is gonna become a six structure, life structure for Neocortex?

50:17 go. How's that going to Are we gonna be able to perceive

50:23 nanometers we're gonna be able to see ultraviolet, right? How's that

50:30 So I asked him that question, next and how that is going to

50:34 ? And I was thinking about it , in the terms of brain plasticity

50:39 human evolution of hope for what we to kind of make it better and

50:45 it better. And he proceeded to me a lecture for about 10

50:50 which was amazing when a master guru to you for 10 minutes, eye

50:55 eye. And his main point was for humans to evolve our brains and

51:05 spiritual existence, moral existence, we to forget about matter. And the

51:16 why we have to forget about matter the way we understand matter is because

51:23 only seen matter within this range. whenever we discover some technological tool,

51:32 we see something that animals see uh changes our understanding and changes our perceptions

51:43 there and he believes with forgetting the um metabolics and brain plasticity, maybe

51:55 next sort of a stage of the evolution and the, and the human

52:00 in the, in the human OK. So we will not ask

52:05 any questions on that, but please up deepak chopra, look up a

52:12 video, like I said as a York Times best selling author, time

52:16 time over and over again, very successful entrepreneur too and just a

52:22 inspiring person. So have you heard tell you to forget matter before?

52:31 , me neither. But uh but you think about metabolics and the power

52:37 the mind, how that overcomes the overcomes the physical being that becomes AAA

52:44 interesting thought to, to care and with you and know our limitations as

52:50 beings. So huge world, infinite number of universes out there.

53:03 probably 100 20 chances in the 100 other forms of life with different perceptions

53:10 things like that. So what we represents properties of objects which is 400

53:15 700 nanometers and organization of sensations by brain because the brain is organized in

53:21 structures and certain connectivity. So what see is what we get Uh three

53:32 experiences are formed From two dimensional objects variations of these objects. So we

53:41 the ability to take, oh Oh man, I have to use

53:50 uh water or alcohol. Maybe I'll so. Oh, I'll have to

54:00 a little, little bit. Zoom guys. There we go.

54:09 if I do something like from this uh this is two dimensions,

54:14 Two dimensions. Why is it Dimension? Because it's dot on the

54:22 . So three dimensions. What does see here? Oh, thank

54:40 Thank you. It's just blank the just do that much. Why do

54:47 think it's a, you associate it something that you saw was a

54:52 a box you open, you were little child, you open the box

54:55 a cube that you learn that you it. So you think it's a

54:59 ? Now, when you see it the board, it's flattened, there's

55:03 really that much to do this. you still think it's a cute.

55:08 . So we do these things right our, in our heads and it's

55:12 stable, it's pretty stable. Most you just said it's a cute,

55:16 know, because you didn't say this Lines and four dots connected by 16

55:22 lines. and uh so this is a stable pattern, more or less

55:29 constant. Despite variation, we'll look some of these variations. The brain

55:33 certain assumptions about what is to be in the world expectations that seem to

55:37 them apart from experience. You've learned a cube open. This is what

55:41 looks like two dimensions, looks like cube and from built-in neural wiring for

55:47 vision, right? So there's these and wiring the vision. So this

55:57 on top, if I ask is there any pattern to this on

56:01 here? Again, you say it's square, square number of dots and

56:05 square pattern. If I ask what do you see here on the

56:11 ? You will say while I'm seeing columns here, blue and yellow,

56:15 and yellow, what about here? will say while I'm seeing these rows

56:19 , yellow and blue, yellow and , yellow and blue and that is

56:23 similarity principles. So we group things are simulate together and we say that

56:28 they're yellow, they must be in column, they must be in one

56:32 . But what if I told you not the case? Actually, it's

56:35 a line that consists of blue, , blue, yellow, blue,

56:42 . Maybe that's my intent, but grouped it together based on that singularity

56:48 and then proximity principle. So you move the objects closer together in this

56:57 or you can move them closer together versus vertically. And the same thing

57:03 , these looks like columns and these like rows. And again, maybe

57:08 intent was that this is a column , you know, more separation and

57:14 group together to another column. It's a road. So I would have

57:19 explain that to you. But we certain assumptions just by looking at

57:23 this is a row, this is column, this is all yellow

57:27 this is all blue and it's close . So they have to be somehow

57:32 , they're matching. There's a lot illusions in the, in the outside

57:42 . I don't know what I can but I use this have to go

57:47 . Yeah. So this is uh know, a really famous delusion.

57:53 look, what I'm gonna do is gonna put a marking here, a

58:00 here on this side, a marking . OK. And then I'm gonna

58:05 a straight line through it. So amount marking here, we draw a

58:20 line through it. So it's the distance apart, right? Everybody see

58:25 , It's the same distance apart, two things and they were to say

58:37 . And if I were to ask which er which, which line is

58:41 the one on top or the one the bottom, you also say they

58:45 the same, but then I did like this and then I'll ask you

59:01 same question. Which line do you is longer? Um Most of

59:06 if you didn't see me do what just did with this, you would

59:12 the the bottom line is. So is, there are illusions how other

59:18 , how other lines of object make perceive things bigger colors make you perceive

59:24 , bigger, right? Like when fashion time and stuff like that,

59:28 know, don't wear white is gonna you big black, you know,

59:32 like that, but it's all of perceptions, right? So it's also

59:38 with other objects. It's pretty The person sitting further away. You

59:42 in the hall and you see two sitting, you don't assume that the

59:46 further away is only half the size this person and they're sitting on a

59:50 that's half the size of this chair even yet, maybe they're just

59:55 a small midget that's sitting in the back of the corridor there on the

60:00 little chair, you know, so adjust for these things, you

60:03 and when you come up closer to door, you don't think that that

60:07 , which looks really tiny door over . I wonder like it's John M

60:10 your door. I wonder if I fit in that bar or into

60:14 You assume that while I'm just gonna up and the door is gonna become

60:18 size, I gonna walk in. adjust for all of these things,

60:21 depth perception, your size perception, learned and it's ingrained. This is

60:27 classical again, illusion of two faces vase. This is green frog,

60:33 fish. The other thing is once see an optical illusion, you can

60:38 that these are very simple, they're complex optical illusions. There are three

60:43 optical illusions or optical illusions from two that create three dimensions. But in

60:49 very complex way with movement and with movement in the tune, they're all

60:56 there are some that are online. believe so too. These are simple

61:00 , but this is what our limitation . And we talk about properties of

61:05 , its wavelength, it has certain and the wavelength obviously is in certain

61:11 . So 400 nanometers to 700 red, orange, yellow,

61:20 hello indigo Violent Roy GB red, , yellow, green, blue

61:35 violent you have infrared. You have amplitude is how bright or how strong

61:44 light is. You go shop for flashlight if you're going camping or fishing

61:48 something like that, I tell you has 300 lumens and this has 600

61:54 . What does that mean? It that just the stronger light but it

61:58 be within the same frequency with the white light or if you're buying

62:02 flash light red, it's gonna be brighter, right? Doesn't mean the

62:07 of view has changed or the So the light has property so that

62:13 can reflect, it can get absorbed get refracted and once it enters,

62:21 gets refracted from air. This is , this is the pupil and the

62:27 surrounding it where the inflammation comes in . This is the extraocular muscles controlled

62:34 ocular motor nerve. This is a of the whole visual system. And

62:40 is the anatomy of the eye. have the lens here that is supported

62:45 the cellular bodies. It's a sensory . So the lens can become thicker

62:51 it can become thinner by becoming thicker thinner. It can focus the image

62:57 on the back of the eyeball, the retina. You have the humor

63:03 in the front and the virus humor the eyeball that's shaped or little she

63:09 substance almost. And the back of eyeball will contain retina here.

63:16 But we'll get into some of the of that directly in the path of

63:22 uh pupil. As the light it is being directed to a very

63:27 area called the where the optic nerve out. You have a blind

63:34 These are the optic nerve crab nerve too that are coming from retina that

63:40 retinal ganglion cell fibers. So there three major subtypes of cells. There

63:47 photoreceptors, bipolar cells and retinal gang . The photoreceptors are going to transduce

63:54 convert information of light into an electrochemical . There's going to be processing in

64:01 retinal circuit here and there's going to an output of activity from retinal gang

64:08 into the thalamus and into the And in the, as you can

64:13 , there is a special indentation in structure here that allows for the light

64:18 be concentrated as much as possible in central area of the retina. This

64:24 where we have the highest spatial This is when you read the smallest

64:29 or try to look as far as and discern them with the highest

64:34 It's called OK, highest acuity And we constantly move eyes and refocus

64:41 this area. If we are really into discerning detail. Now, when

64:46 look at something, you can see or something in a really great detail

64:51 you can still see the surroundings, they're not in this great of a

64:54 . And if you want to see , you're gonna have to move your

64:57 to see more detail in other surroundings individuals. So the information, the

65:03 of the information, the direction of light actually coming through the eyeball will

65:09 to pass what are called the jungle fibers and circuits here to get into

65:16 photo receptors that are located in the back of the retina. And then

65:21 processing will take place initially in the bipolar cell system. Finally, in

65:28 retinal gang and cells that are gonna the major output of the retina.

65:34 . So the direction of the light way and signal processing, electric chemical

65:42 synoptic transmission is in the opposite We have two types of photoreceptors cone

65:49 rod rods are in one subtype They are achromatic cones are blue green

65:59 red. OK. So the three of cone filter receptors. And as

66:05 mentioned already, if you're looking at object far away, you're focusing on

66:11 object, far away, that object move. And as that object moves

66:16 to you, you still wanna have keep that object in focus. And

66:21 do that, you're gonna adjust the of the lens to keep that object

66:26 in focus. Always on the back the retina, uh eyeball on the

66:31 , the back of the retina to photoreceptors. So this is normal

66:36 If you have tropia, that means your lungs can adjust steadily to far

66:43 near objects. So you can perceive . And if you cannot adjust,

66:49 may need a correction. Yeah. that adjusts for you to put things

66:55 focus that otherwise are out of So typically we do that with the

67:02 ligaments and relaxing, contracting those ligaments changing the shape or the thickness off

67:10 lungs. But if you have the lens is now capable of adjusting

67:19 and things are blurred, they're being behind the space that would fall immediately

67:26 the retina. So you would use convex lens or glasses to adjust to

67:36 the image for hyperopia. For that image is some distance it's focused

67:47 before the retina. Again, out focus blurry can discern detail. So

67:54 have concave ones that will adjust and now allow for that image to be

68:03 on the run and uh So this and lenses and uh Lasi can with

68:14 laser, adjust the lenses and uh certain uh areas to, to basically

68:24 the shape of those lenses so that can focus better when we look with

68:31 eye. So if you close your eye, right eye, We have

68:37 around us, but one eye is to be able to see a 150

68:42 . We call it the uh degrees visual angle, 150 from one on

68:53 you hold like an object really close that one eye. It may occupy

69:01 all of it like 100 degrees of of your vision. And put aside

69:06 example, typically when the moon is risen, we know the distance to

69:12 moon that dot that you see when risen, it's about half a degree

69:19 visual angle out of this 150. that dot that right dot That moon

69:27 be perceived by about 100 40 micrometers space on the retina. So that

69:33 bright dot is perceived by 100 and micrometers of space in the retina,

69:37 means a whole bunch of photoreceptors will activated in this space of the retina

69:42 that point to be seen. What the Jupiter when the Venus were

69:48 And the Jupiter would have its own ? And if it was closer,

69:52 it would occupy 100 and 60 micrometers space. If the unus is even

69:56 here, occupy maybe 300 micrometers of , you know, perceiving that

70:03 So here is occupying almost all of records here when it's so close

70:10 Cool. Now, the two important is I think that I uh overs

70:17 a little bit too much but too point here is that we have photoreceptors

70:25 they're the only light sensitive cells that that they're the only ones that are

70:31 to react to light. And then have ganglion cells, it's the only

70:35 that comes out of the retina. , photoreceptors or bipolar cells, you

70:39 put anything out. Uh optic nerve nerve two is a collection of retinal

70:46 and cell aides. So for the of evolution of the human brain and

70:54 , I'm gonna end this lecture here . Uh Look up Deo chakra and

70:59 finish up the retina and the photoreceptors in about 15 minutes when we come

71:06 on Wednesday before we move to more on digital systems. Thank you very

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