Friday, October 2, 2009

3 Things I Learned in Chapter 2 Blog

One thing that I learned in chapter 2 was that our brain uses many different parts to analyze data that we recieve and how it transfers messages. This impacts my life in how we process and recieve information because if we did not have all these different parts of the brain trying to work as one to make messages that we recieve to make sence. If we did not have one of these parts we would not be able to understand things. I always thought that the brain was just one big tissue of a soft slimmy substance that just sits their and is one as a whole.

Another thing that I learned in chapter 2 was what is an Endorphin. An Endorphin makes a person happy. This impacts my like because if I didn't have any Endorphins I would never be happy. I never new that the brain released Endorphins just to make a person happy. I always thought it was just a sence that you get and you just will feel happy.

The last of the three things I learned was how an MRI is used. An MRI is used to show the anatomy of the brain and show if their is anything wrong in your brain. This impacts my life because if we didn't have thses types of machines to detect that their is something wrong going on inside my head I could be dead before you know it. I always have heard of an MRI but I never actually knew what it did and now I do Know. I know how important it is to patients that might have a tumor or cancer in their brain and this can really help to save a persons life if caught or detected early.

1 comment:

  1. I also never knew that an MRI is used to show the anatomy of the brain. I also would say that without endorphins people would be pretty lame because nobody would be happy.

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