The Brain by Dr. Maldonado

The Dr Maldonado's class was very interesting, because he talked about the brain, an important issue for Physical therapists; it is the centerpiece of Neurorehabilitation. For this reason I liked very much this class. I think that this conference was very clear; it was easy to understand what Dr. Maldonado said. I also think that he used very good time, because he spoke about various topics, without devoting much time to one in particular, so I'm not bored.
He talked that the brain is very big and must conform to the space offered by our skull, that of organized multiple curves that allow compact size. More cortex, more curves.
The brain uses the 25% of oxygen of our body, the 25% of the Energy of our body. This is an organ very important for our body, for our life… The nervous system diseases are very expensive, and it uses around the 45% of the health budget in USA.
There are many myths about brain functions, and in this class Dr. Maldonado spoke of what actually happens in the brain:

The most common myth is that we think that our brain can’t be similar to animal brain, because we are more intelligent. But the truth is that the Human brain is very similar to cortex of several animals, it is the same structure. There aren’t big differences.
Other myth is every brain function is localized in a specific place of brain, because there are several functions that are activated in different brain areas simultaneously.
To simplify the functioning of the brain many say it works just like the computer, but it is a myth because, our brain don’t do one function at time, the brain send simultaneous signals all the time, it is doing several functions at the same time.
These are some of the myths that Dr. Maldonado said, He is an important scientific of Neuroscience area of University of Chile. We appreciate your participation in English class.