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always known that humans and cockroaches have much in common

brain function by collecting and integrating information about the world and control the body's responses to that information, primarily through electricity. For example, let's see how a cockroach moves his leg. The cockroach's brain perceives the world through electrical signals that are sent by the sensory neurons through his body, the brain processes this information and react to the world by sending electrical signals in the motor neurons that control muscle movement .

In this fascinating video that brilliantly combines computer technology, animation and real life demonstration in front of a live audience, we dissect a neuroscientist Greg Gage leg of a live (anesthetized) and demonstrate cockroaches how electrical impulses are sent and received by the neurons, and how the electrical impulses controlling muscle movement of the leg:

TEDEducation Visit the YouTube channel [video link].

Before becoming a neuroscientist, Dr. Gage has worked as an electrical engineer, so that the touch screens. As he told the

Huffington Post

: "The scientific team in general is quite expensive, but it is absurd, because prior [to get my Ph.D. in Neuroscience] I was an electrical engineer, and I could see what you can do yourself. It started as a fun way to show our colleagues, but also went to school at that time and we thought, it does would be great if I could bring these devices with us for things we were doing advanced doctoral programs in neuroscience, also occur in the fifth year? "

so with Tim Marzullo, Dr. Gage brains based court, a company that teaches middle school children on neuroscience, and sells do-it-yourself kits that allow children to do their own experiments .

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