Peripheral Nervous System: Crash Course A&P #12
It is now time to meet the system that helps your crazy brain stay in touch with the outside world. We follow up last week's tour of the central nervous system with ...
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When it comes to the nervous system, or just your body in general, let’s face it: your brain gets all the props. And it deserves those props! It’s a complicated, and crucial, and sometimes crazy boss of an organ. But your brain would be pretty useless without a support team that kept it connected to the outside world. Because frankly, like any leader, the more isolated your brain gets, the weirder it gets. Put a person in a watery, pitch-black sensory deprivation tank, and you’ll see the brain do some really weird stuff. Without a constant flood of external information, the brain starts to confuse its own thoughts for actual experiences, leading you to hallucinate the taste of cheeseburgers, or the sound of a choir singing, or the sight of pink stampeding elephants. It’s y...
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When it comes to the nervous system, or just your body in general, let’s face it: your brain gets all the props. And it deserves those props! It’s a complicated, and crucial, and sometimes crazy boss of an organ. But your brain would be pretty useless without a support team that kept it connected to the outside world. Because frankly, like any leader, the more isolated your brain gets, the weirder it gets. Put a person in a watery, pitch-black sensory deprivation tank, and you’ll see the brain do some really weird stuff. Without a constant flood of external information, the brain starts to confuse its own thoughts for actual experiences, leading you to hallucinate the taste of cheeseburgers, or the sound of a choir singing, or the sight of pink stampeding elephants. It’s y...
