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Quoted: Want to know what I learned at my community college today?
I learned that when the catecholamine neurotransmitters bind to the postsynaptic membrane, they activate an enzyme on the postsynaptic membrane known as adenylate cyclase. This enzyme converts atp to cyclic AMP plus 2 PO4's in the cytoplasm of the postsynaptic membrane.
You can go to school and get a degree, or you can go to school and get an education.
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Wait, wait. Now just slow down, son. You did what now?
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Here's some more s#it I learned today at my local community college.
The diencephalon consists of four parts: The thalamus, epithalamus, hypothalamus, and pituitary gland. The thalamus acts primarily as a relay center through which all sensory information except smell passes on the way to the cerebrum. The epithalamus contains the pineal gland which secretes the hormone Melatonin which may play a role in the endocrine function of reproduction. The hypothalamus contains the centers for hunger and thirst, and regulates body temperature, sleep and wakefulness, sexual arousal and performance, emotions such as fear, pain, and pleasure, and the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland secretes hormones (to be discussed in the endocrine system chapter I guess).
I went to my professor's office hours today and checked to see whether a "mental function" was the same thing as an "intellectual process." Turns out that yes they are the same thing. Also, I checked that the five parts of the brain, listed by the letters A through F (which is six letters) doesn't really include the reticular formation (which I'd guessed but you never know). Also, when I asked whether the Six Categories of Neuroglial Cells (numbered 1-8) really included the Sheath of Schwann and the Myelin Sheath, I was told that well really no, those are some other kind of thing.
Needless to say, I'm a straight A student this time through school. I already have a degree, this time through is for an education.