BIOL1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neuroglia, Oligodendrocyte, Myelin

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The Great Brain Reboot
The Brain
2% of our body weight
Uses 20 25% of the body’s energy
Nerve and Glial Cells
o 86 billion nerve cells
o Same number of supporting glial cells
o Glial cells
Oligodendrocytes produce myelin
Astrocytes, homeostasis, barrier function, etc.
o Connections synapses
o Synapse: means to fasten together
o Each neuron has 100s to 1000s of synapses
o More synapses in our body than stars in our galaxy
o Connects each neuron to 1000s of others,
o The optic nerve is part of the brain
Neurons that fire together, wire together
If you don’t use the nervous system it will simply stop working
Exercise helps keep nerve cells alive and firing
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