Episode 18 - The Brain! Including lobes, corpus callosum, and cerebellum!




Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast show

Summary: - Brain metabolism (sugar, lactate, and ketones) - Frontal lobe (Phineas Gage getting a rod through his head, motor cortex, dementia, and Broca's aphasia - inability to create words) - Parietal lobe (Sensory cortex, phantom limb, neuroplasticity, disowning your own body parts) - Temporal lobe (memory, learning, epilepsy and religious experiences, Wernicke's aphasia - word-salad) - Occpital lobe (interpreting vision, visual disorders) - Insula (food avoidance after food poisoning) - Corpus Callosum (Split brain experiment, separating consciousness, confabulation) - Cerebellum (proprioception, balance, cerebral ataxia, walking on all four limbs, getting drunk)