This week has gone by surprisingly fast. Throughout this week the class has been doing fetal pig dissections and we also had a guest speaker who was a professor from UCSD come in and teach us a little more about the brain. Professor Kauffmen talked to us about how the young brain and how and why it develops the way it does. When he first came in I didn’t think I would learn anything new. I just thought he would go over what we were already learning in biology. While he was giving his lesson I learned about the release of testosterone in the brains of young males and females. When a male is young there is a release of testosterone in the brain that will help develope into a male brain. When females are young there is no release of testosterone and this causes the brain to develop into a female brain. My question was: What are the affects if a male doesn’t release testosterone while young? In the Image shown the brain on the left is a male’s brain. In the male’s brain there are more connections in neurons going back and forth on each individual side of the brain. On the right is a female’s brain and there are more connections in neurons from side to side. This could be something that is the cause for females and males being more skilled with different tasks like girls ability to focus for longer and guys ability with hand eye coordination.
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AuthorMy name is Sofianna Sanchez and I'm a junior at High Tech High Chula Vista. I'm wrote these blog posts weekly to help me prepare for writing them daily during my month long internship. Archives
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