Dissection Time!

A few weeks ago we were to select groups and dissect the brain of a sheep.  My group consisted of Gena, Zerek, and I.  At first we were all pretty disgusted with the topic at hand.  Zerek didn't want to touch it, let alone dissect it.  After we got the necessary tools we had a choose of how to dissect the brain itself.  The three ways were: sagittal, coronal, or transverse.

Sagittal- To cut into two separate pieces.(left and right)

Coronal- To cut in a vertical direction leaving you with a front and back piece of the brain.

Transverse- To cut horizontally which leaves you with a top and bottom

We chose to use the coronal cut to dissect the brain.  However, before dissecting the brain itself, we had to remove the almost clear skin covering the top of the brain.  This film is known as the dura mater.  It protects the brain from getting damaged.  After we got it dissected, Mr. Ludwig came and explained to us some of the parts of the brain, but unfortunately we ran out of time to discuss any thing further.

Here are some pictures of us dissecting the brain (:

Memory!

From an early age, our memory begins forming and putting good and memories into our brain through the hippocampus.  I expand more about what I learned in the glog I created.  The knowledge I put together was very simple, however memory is very complex and has a lot of information to put all in one.