On Monday, the 5th of January (2015), the whole of the DEMS class of 2019 took a field trip to the King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam. The purpose of this field trip was to properly understand the structure of the brain (to understand what each part does) and to learn more about human psychotherapy. During this fascinating trip, our science teacher, Mrs. Nazli Ahmed, asked us to take notes about the topics that the presenters discussed. One of the things that we needed to include in our notes was an Aha-moment. An Aha-moment is a moment during the trip that really stood out to ourselves (kind of like a "Oh-my-God-I-can't –believed-that-actually-happened" moment).
My Aha-Moment during this field trip to the King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam was the remapping or neuroplasticity of a paralyzed arm. When someone has a paralyzed hand, the neurons in the human body think that the paralyzed hand cannot be functional. If that hand (specifically the fingers) was to be moved, then the neurons would receive the message that the hand can still be functional. When this happens, the extra neurons that are in our body flow back to the paralyzed arms to be used as neurons for the arm. I found this information very cool and fascinating. This clearly shows that there is hope for people with paralyzed body parts. In the specialist hospital, there was a machine that made the fingers on the hand move by attaching the person's finger to the metal bits, this was used to tell the body that the hand can still be functional.
- Mohammad Arhaam Mukati
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