Chapter 2

When reading this chapter I had learned a lot of different things. The first thing that I had learned from this chapter was that the brain is a very, very complex organ. I had no clue how many different things go into making up the brain. When reading the chapter I had no clue what the heck pons, reticular formations, amygdala's, or Hippocampus's were but know I kind of have a clue on what they are.


The second thing that I learned was that people that have epilectic seiziures can be fixed by actually cutting the brain in half at the corpus collosum and still live. I had no clue that you could do that until I saw the video about the man with two brains. Then I learned that the man that had two brains could actually draw two different shapes at one time. I thought that it was pretty cool that when he would see something on one side of his head he would either point at the picture or he would say what he saw.


The last thing that I had learned in this chapter was that you can actually control a rat with a remote control. I never thought that an animal could be run by a remote contol fused into its brain. I thought that, that was pretty sweet and very interesting.

This stuff can be applied to my life in many differnt ways. In one way it can be used is I now know what controls the functions of my brain. I now know that if I would ever have seizures there is a possible solution to fixing the seizures and that is to cut the brain in half.