Brain anatomy is the most fascinating and most important of all biological systems
To the Egyptians, the heart was the essence of life. Brain anatomy was unimportant. The brain was considered a minor, unimportant organ. They discarded it during the embalming process even as they preserved other organs for mummification. Skulls with evidence of healing have been found at many sites, suggesting that the subjects of operations survived.It’s funny how I never really thought seriously about the brain as a physical organ that regulates the body, like the heart, lungs, or kidneys. For most of my adult life, I’d never really considered the role it plays in walking, sitting, running, and jumping.
Clearly brain anatomy shows the brain has two sides:
Research has shown in brain anatomy that most people favor one hemisphere over the other, with the dominant hemisphere being more electrically active and the non-dominant hemisphere relatively more electrically silent, when a person is being tested or asked to solve problems or respond to information. The two cortical hemispheres are linked by a bundle of nerve fibers. In theory these two structures should unite the function of the two hemispheres. In practice they act more like a wall separating them.
From a neurological perspective, the cerebral basis for a well-functioning mind would be the effective, complementary, simultaneous integrated function of both cortical hemispheres, with neither hemisphere being permanently dominant. This in turn would require nerve fibers to optimize information flow between the two hemispheres. Research has shown Piracetam to facilitate such inter-cerebral information transfer-indeed, it’s part of the definition of a “nootropic drug.”
Brain anatomy studies the cerebellum
that controls our daily functions. Our son had stayed alive because there had been no damage to his brain stem, the section in the back of the head on top of the spinal cord that regulates breathing, heartbeat and other involuntary functions necessary for life. It is apparent that our son has most of his injury in the frontal lobes, the area of the brain that governs speech, memory, movement and personality. The frontal lobes are the parts of the brain, essentially, that makes us who we are. Depending on what parts of the brain has been affected, stroke victims experience a variety of neurological deficits.
is crucial to the stroke or brain injury patient’s recovery. Physical therapists and speech therapists help patients “relearn” their lost functions and devise ways to cope with the loss of those they cannot regain.