Brain functionality
Hello,
Todays random topic..... memory assimilation! this is something more for those of us who are a little more informed on the cellular level of life cough( annissa, cindy, jaime, kelly) cough but if you want to add to the discussion feel free. Think about how truly incredible the human mind is, some of us have memories from when we were 3 years old. havent you ever wondered how we can store so much, and still have space to memorize everything they teach us from school, remember songs, phrases, names, faces, phone numbers, and all the crap in our head. Now here comes the biology of it all. our body cells all come from a lets say initial cell type and through delevopment in the womb our cells become more and more specified, some so specified that our body will no longer produce them, such as nerve cells. our brain is a collection of tissues and specified cells. It regulates our heart, our motor functions, and basically every single part of our being.The brain can basically be diveded into different areas. there is an area for long term memory, there is an area that will hold your short term memory and of course there is a part of the brain that turns your short term memory into long term memory. How the hell does this happen? i mean our cells are capable of copying our DNA into tRNA, mRNA, rRNA and all these different forms..... so is that how it retains memory? of course it is a chemical process but how does it work? our DNA is basically a collection of chemicals you have your phospate groups, you have the ribose sugar which is basically a chemicala composition of carbon and oxygen mixed with a varying type of chemical between deoxyribose and just ribose, and then you have one of the pyrimidines or purines. It is a traslation of all of these elemts that allow for our gentic makeup, how we look, our skin tone, our voice, our hormones, our height and tendency to gain weight. So is the brain the same? Is it possible that in our brain there are individual storage cells or maybe just random vesicles that contain a kind of chemical sequence that codes for a memory? is it that there is some sort of freshly made sequence similar to DNA that will later be translated into proteins used to store our memory? And then the question is, how does our brain translate this code into sensory details, like a visual image, a smell, a taste, how is it that we recall things to such an extent.how does our brain function to such a level i think its incredible, AHHHH im runnign out of time and will to type so i will continue a branch of this tommorow! tommrow i will discuss brain disfunctions and memory problems. I know im a nerd but I am going to major in biology so hey what can i do this is what i liek to do!
Alberto
Todays random topic..... memory assimilation! this is something more for those of us who are a little more informed on the cellular level of life cough( annissa, cindy, jaime, kelly) cough but if you want to add to the discussion feel free. Think about how truly incredible the human mind is, some of us have memories from when we were 3 years old. havent you ever wondered how we can store so much, and still have space to memorize everything they teach us from school, remember songs, phrases, names, faces, phone numbers, and all the crap in our head. Now here comes the biology of it all. our body cells all come from a lets say initial cell type and through delevopment in the womb our cells become more and more specified, some so specified that our body will no longer produce them, such as nerve cells. our brain is a collection of tissues and specified cells. It regulates our heart, our motor functions, and basically every single part of our being.The brain can basically be diveded into different areas. there is an area for long term memory, there is an area that will hold your short term memory and of course there is a part of the brain that turns your short term memory into long term memory. How the hell does this happen? i mean our cells are capable of copying our DNA into tRNA, mRNA, rRNA and all these different forms..... so is that how it retains memory? of course it is a chemical process but how does it work? our DNA is basically a collection of chemicals you have your phospate groups, you have the ribose sugar which is basically a chemicala composition of carbon and oxygen mixed with a varying type of chemical between deoxyribose and just ribose, and then you have one of the pyrimidines or purines. It is a traslation of all of these elemts that allow for our gentic makeup, how we look, our skin tone, our voice, our hormones, our height and tendency to gain weight. So is the brain the same? Is it possible that in our brain there are individual storage cells or maybe just random vesicles that contain a kind of chemical sequence that codes for a memory? is it that there is some sort of freshly made sequence similar to DNA that will later be translated into proteins used to store our memory? And then the question is, how does our brain translate this code into sensory details, like a visual image, a smell, a taste, how is it that we recall things to such an extent.how does our brain function to such a level i think its incredible, AHHHH im runnign out of time and will to type so i will continue a branch of this tommorow! tommrow i will discuss brain disfunctions and memory problems. I know im a nerd but I am going to major in biology so hey what can i do this is what i liek to do!
Alberto