BMB Quiz

Last week we had a "quiz" in BMB (as Dr. Lowenstein calls it). It wasn't too bad. I like a lot of the material covered in the first two weeks. While anatomy is anatomy, it's very cool to be able to localize lesions from neurological findings. If you know where all the cranial nerves exit and how they travel, by knowing which deficits a patient has, you predict what part of their brainstem or brain was injured. We also went into some depth on spinal cord pathways, and I actually find that very interesting; light touch and vibration travel in different pathways than temperature and pain, so you can lose ability to feel light touch, but retain the ability to feel pain. I finally managed to learn about reflex arcs. The cell biology and developmental biology stuff wasn't bad. The anatomy practical in the afternoon was fairly tough; there were 70 identifications to make, and it took an hour. But it was a great relief to be done.