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INSIGHTS INTO BRAIN and MIND (Expanded and extended interpretation of how the Brain works)
  • Consciousness arises from Sensory Stimuli and Memory Recall.
  • Emotion generation from Sensory Input and Memory
  • Cognition defining frame-works of Understanding 
  • Decision-Making for Behavior and Speech
MIND FROM BRAIN
  • Parallel sensory inputs to cortices are regulated through a synchronizing, temporal-gate forming consciousness.   
  • Functional activity of neuronal circuitry leading to consciousness, emotion, cognition, and decision-making for motor actions and speech

CONCEPTS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
  • Neurons, Synapses & Glia - Neurocytology, Neurophysiology, Neurochemistry
  • Developmental organization  PNS and CNS
  • Sensory Systems   
    • Spinal & Cranial Nerves
    • Auditory System
    • Visual System
    • Vestibular
    • Taste
    • Smell
    • Touch
    • Autonomic Sensations
  • BRAINSTEM & CORD IN CONTROL OF REFLEX MOVEMENT
    • Spinal & Brainstem Sensory-Motor Reflexes
    • Autonomic reflex organization- Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
    • Vestibular System and eye movements
    • Brainstem control of patterned movements
  • BASAL GANGLIA CONTROL OF PATTERNED MOVEMENT
    • Involuntary Motor Control of Patterned Reflexes
    • MIND Initiated Control of Voluntary Patterned Movement
    • Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar Circuitry for Control of Ballistic and Modulated Movement     
  • EMERGENCE OF MIND FROM THE BRAIN-  Rostral Brain Generation of MIND
    • Thalamic Gating of Sensory Signals to the Cerebral Cortex (generating Awareness and Consciousness) Consciousness from sensory input and memory
    • Emotion generation from  memory 
    • Cognition forming frame-works of understanding -  Source of INTELLIGENCE
    • Decision-making for Behavior and Speech
  • Olfactory System and Behavior - Limbic System & Hypothalamus
    • Facial ID and Emotion through hippocampal processing
    • Amygdala -Hypothalamic emotion generation

SEE- MATERIALS Modules (65) in MINDOVERBRAIN.com These Study Materials explain how neurons give rise to brain structure and function and define emergence of MIND from circuits formed by neurons. Components of the cord and brain form a functional unit yielding consciousness, memories, emotions, behaviors, and intellect.


Faculty


Dean Hillman Ph. D.  Research Professor
Retired Professor of Neuroscience, Physiology and Otolaryngology

New York University Medical Center
550 First Avenue
New York, NY  10016

Dr. Hillman has taught medical and graduate students the nervous system for all his career and done research on various aspects of nervous system organization and function. 

These research results include:
  •  mRNA’s of Purkinje cells prevent cell death
  • Phenotypic neurons of the cerebellum repair neuronal circuitry
  • GDNF in Purkinje cells is reciprocal to receptors in glia
  • Voltage-gated calcium channel protein occurs near climbing fiber synaptic sites where they produce dendrite spikes in PC cells.
  • Calcium management in neurons occurs via calcium binding proteins and calcium pumps.
  • Learning at synapses occurs as relative size changes within constrained total synaptic contact area per neuron .
  • Parameters of neuronal arbors are controlled genetically by microtubules and neurofilaments in dendrites and axons.



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