The comic · Human Anatomy & Physiology (HAP)

Week 8 of 17

MARCH 9 TO 12

Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.

Drawing, panel 38: Bioethics: brain data and consent.

Should brain scan data be usable for anything beyond the reason it was collected? A brain scan is closer to a person than most medical data.

Panel 38Bioethics: brain data and consent · 2027-03-09
Drawing, panel 39: Neuron parts and the synapse.

Dendrites, cell body, axon, myelin, terminals, with the signal direction marked. Then the synapse, where the signal stops being electrical and becomes chemical and then electrical again.

Panel 39Neuron parts and the synapse
Drawing, panel 40: Brain dissection or virtual.

Brain day. The virtual option is right there and nobody has to explain why they took it. I took the specimen and my hands were not steady.

MR. MENDOZA

Take the virtual version. Nobody has to explain themselves for that.

Panel 40Brain dissection or virtual · 2027-03-11
Drawing, panel 41: CNS, PNS, and brain regions.

Sorting five body actions into central and peripheral with a justification for each. Sorting is easy, justifying is where you find out whether you understand it.

Panel 41CNS, PNS, and brain regions · 2027-03-12
Drawing, panel 42: Submit nervous-system evidence.

Neuron diagram, brain map, sorting table.

Panel 42Submit nervous-system evidence
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