#brain stem

[gwydionmisha]

Long Covid: study shows damage to brain's 'control centre'

Research could help scientists understand long-term effects of Covid-19 as well as conditions such as MS and dementia

Wear your mask and get vaxxed.

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[onryou-onryou]

DAOKO "Ocharaketayo" MUSIC VIDEO

[curiosityistheleastofmyproblems]

Anatomical model of human brain, paper mache, French, 19th century

[unwelcome-ozian]

Hi. I remember during my programming my brain stem kept feeling like it was being hit and my brain felt like it was falling backwards into a hole. I also remember my alters being taken away and put somewhere to be punished but don't remember what happened inside. How is the brain stem used by programmers usually?

The brain stem (reptilian complex) controls basic metabolic functions such as breathing, heart rate, digestion, blood pressure and arousal (being awake and alert). It controls our primitive instincts and is incapable of emotional complexity or sophisticated thought. This is where we retreat when our brains perceive a threat — our breathing and heart rate hastens, our blood vessels constrict, our chest tightens, our neck tenses, our pupils dilate, and we can experience tunnel vision.

The brain stem is comprised of three distinct sections, which each section contributing to different functions:

Midbrain. At the top of the brain stem rests the midbrain. This structure plays a large role in muscle movement, particularly eye movement. Pons. Below the midbrain lies the pons. The pons acts as a bridge between the cerebellum and spinal cord and helps control your balance, among other things. Medulla. Finally, at the bottom of the brain stem is the medulla. The medulla oversees essential life functions, such as breathing, heart rate, and swallowing.

Injury to the brain stem can have a catastrophic impact on an individual destruction of the midbrain, pons, or medulla oblongata causes “brain death”, and the victim of the injury cannot survive. And while damage to the brain stem can cause death, even an injury that does not cause death, can cause significant brain stem injury symptoms. Because so many functions that are essential to survival are located in and pass through the brain stem, an injury to a person’s brain stem is often the most devastating injury a person can suffer short of death.

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[knotnotknowing]

🐛 merging spoken word and written with artistic visions and potent surges, evoking certain work that surgeons do when i pull out the scalpel and make incisions 🔪 palpable pen diction, accounting for verses that invoke urges to elope both worlds in pertinent inscriptions from descriptions 🦋

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[just-4-thought]

Poetry in Motion

-my gif of my best friend learning to walk after brain injury-

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Derivatives of the Diencephalon and the Brain Stem