Diff’rent Strokes

Lock-down mode once again at the halls for this Friday brings the dreaded, hastily anticipated, and supposedly most difficult of all first year exams – the brain and behaviour (and locomotor) exam.

Cranial nerves, spinal tracts, brain anatomy and infinite fact have been crammed into our cortexes over the past eight weeks. I for one am running out of gray matter, which isn’t so much of a problem as I’m also running out of time. B+B isn’t easy, but the general consensus seems to be it was actually a really enjoyable module.

As for highlights, well, part way through the course I found out exactly ‘What Willis was talk’n about.’

Yes, that’s right he was talking about ‘the Circle of Willis’, or rather the blood supply to the brain.

Ironically, the Circle of Willis can also be used to explain the ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ that an individual may suffer from.

For example, a CVA involving the middle cerebral artery will affect the entire lateral aspect of the cerebral hemisphere causing global aphasia, as well as motor and sensory deficits.

Now that’s what Willis was talk’n about!