Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #50theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #50Kevin PattonAug 11, 2021Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #50theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareLife ScienceStudy highlights how the enteric nervous system acts similarly to neural networks in the brain and spinal cord.Contradicting conventional thought, researchers find neurons associated with processing touch sensations do not simply respond to distinct types of touch. Instead, these neurons respond to many types of touch, and to varying degrees.Regardless of symptom severity, otherwise healthy young people diagnosed with COVID-19 develop abnormalities with the system that governs the fight-or-flight response in the sympathetic nervous system.Correcting endothelial dysfunction in both human tissue and an elastase-induced murine model of emphysema shows promise in stopping and reversing the course of the disease, according to an international group of researchers.Your chance of being crushed in bed tonight by a falling satellite is minuscule. It is also nonzero. Ronald Howard, a Stanford engineering professor and founder of a discipline called decision analysis, made a point of noting the latter, the risk of splat. Teaching & LearningIn The Trouble with Rubrics, Alfie Kohn writes “consistent and uniform standards are admirable, and maybe even workable, when we’re talking about, say, the manufacture of DVD players.” Teaching is nothing like the manufacture of DVD players.People don’t listen to outsiders. They need enlightened insiders to offer them a ladder to climb down, says sociology professor Brooke HarringtonA mathematical model built by Ursinus College, a residential campus of 1,500 students outside of Philadelphia, shows that even though administrators expect more than 90 percent of students to get vaccinated — under a mandate that allows for exemptions — that’s not enough to prevent an outbreak too big for the college to handle.TAPP News & NotesComprehensive collection of strategies, mindsets, & strategies for the syllabus & related course documents. Mix of classic & fresh segments.As medical educational strategies, priorities, and curricular frameworks continue to evolve, traditional didactic topics like histology will need to adapt to continue providing educational value to future health care providers.PreviousNext