Thursday, 10 March 2016

Brain and Sense

Assalamualaikum, & hi readers !! Today, I will  write and share with you all about brain and senses.Brain is the center part of body to control all the activity,while sense is our sight,taste,hearing and smell.

Brain
In our body ,brain is most popular as a nervouse system.

There is a brain structure;


MAJOR PARTS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN (FOREBRAIN) Forebrain
 • Telencephalon (cerebrum)  
Diencephalon 
• Cerebrum .
• Derived from the telencephalon .
• Largest part of the human brain (80%). 
• Involves in perception, cognition, higher motor functions.
 • Conscious mind located here. (communication, remember, understand, initiate voluntary movements .
CEREBRUM
29 Divided into 2 halves;
 a) Left hemisphere.
 b) Right hemisphere. Each hemisphere chiefly concerned with the sensory and motor functions of the opposite side of the body.

CEREBRAL CORTEX 
• The outer region composed of gray matter with underlying white matter.
 • Convolutions allow the cortex to have a large surface area and still fit inside the skull. 
• Gyri = elevated ridges.
 • Sulci = depressions.
 • Fissures = big sulci.

DIENCEPHALON
• Central core of the forebrain.
 • Encloses the third ventricle .
• Consists of three paired structures:
 • Thalamus .
• Hypothalamus. 
• Epithalamus.

DIENCEPHALON: THALAMUS 
• Thalamus : “Inner room”.
 • Paired, egg-shaped masses that form the superolateral walls of the third ventricle.
 • Relay center for information coming into cerebral cortex.
 • Information is sorted out and edit.
. • Promotes a state of arousal from sleep and alertn.

HYPOTHALAMIC FUNCTION 
• Regulates blood pressure, rate and force of heartbeat, digestive tract motility, and many other visceral activities.
 • Is involved with perception of pleasure, fear, and rage.
 • Regulation of body temperature.
 • Regulates feelings of hunger and satiety (regulate food intake, water balance and thirst).
 • Regulates sleep and the sleep cycle.
 • Control endocrine function: control release and inhibiting.

BRAINSTEM 
• Positioned between cerebrum and spinal cord.
. • Consist of three parts; medulla oblongata, pons and the midbrain.
 • Function: homeostasis, coordination of movement, and conduction of information to higher brain centers.

THE CEREBELLUM
• Located dorsal to the pons and medulla.
 • Protrudes under the occipital lobes of the cerebrum.
 • Makes up 11% of the brain’s mass.
 • Provides precise timing and appropriate patterns of skeletal muscle contraction (motor function).


There is little bit information about the brain,now i want to show and explain about the sense.

SENSE
CHEMICAL SENSES
  The gustation (taste) and olfaction (smell) and both dependent on chemoreceptors that detects specific chemicals (dissolve in aqueous solution) in the environment.  Taste receptor excited by food chemicals dissolve in saliva . Smell receptor excited by airborne chemicals that dissolve in fluid coating nasal membrane.

OLFACTION 
a) Olfactory receptor cells – neuron that lines the upper portion of nasal cavity and sends impulse directly to olfactory bulb of the brain.
 b) The receptive ends of the cells contain cilia that extend into mucous layer coating the nasal cavity.

GUSTATION  Gustation receptor cells – modified epithelial cells called taste buds. 
 Most taste buds : papillae. 
 Two cells of taste buds: 
i. Taste/gustatory cells 
 Gustatory hairs project from the tips of taste cells and extend through taste pores. 
ii. Basal cells .
 Act as stem cell, dividing & differentiating into new gustatory cells. Taste sensations Substance Transduction Taste map Sweet Organic substance, saccharin, alcohols, amino acids
 Sweetness – sugar bind to protein receptor 
 triggers signal transduction pathway .
 Results in depolarization. Tip of the tongue Sour Acids; dissolve H+ in solution Chemoreceptors detect saltiness (Na+ ions) or sourness (H+ ions) have channels in their plasma membrane through which these ions can diffuse .Influx of H+ and Na+ depolarizes the cell. Side Salty Inorganic salts; eg: table salt Side Bitter Alkaloids and some nonalakaloids substance Substance eg: quinine bind to K+ channel and closes them  resulting in decrease of membrane permeability to K+ . Depolarizes the cell Back of the tongue Umami Amino acids glutamate and aspartate .Binding of glutamate to Na+ channel. When glutamate is bound, Na+ channel open . Na+ diffuses into the cell . cell depolarize to the pharynx 5 taste sen.

Structures of the Eye .
Spherical, fluid-filled structure enclosed by 3 layers : 
1. Outermost : Sclera, cornea.
 2. Middle: Choroid, ciliary body, iris .
3. Innermost : Retina.

Structure of ears


  Three parts of ears: 
The external, the middle & the inner ear.  External  is transmit airborne sound waves to middle ear (amplify sound) and to fluid-filled inner ear.  Inner is houses 2 different sensory system :  the cochlea: receptors for conversion of sound waves into nerve impulses (hearing).  Vestibulars  apparatus is for sense of equilibrium.

so this is the sense that i want to share with you.Sense is most important for us,without sense we cant see,taste,hearing,and smell.
I hope my explanation about the brain and sense will give you all more knowledgble about this,
Thank you for reading :)

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