Making Mistakes Teaching Anatomy & Physiology | Episode 63

Host Kevin Patton discusses the fact that mistakes in teaching anatomy& physiology happen —and that it'sokay. And how to deal with the embarrassment. Also: how stress makes our hair turn gray and a newly discovered immune lymphocyte.00:47 | How Stress Grays Our Hair05:16 | Sponsored by AAA06:54 | New Type of Immune Cell13:02 | Sponsored by HAPI13:49 | Making Mistakes27:23 | Sponsored by HAPS28:08 | Survey Says...28:34 | Staying ConnectedIf you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here. Please take the anonymous survey:theAPprofessor.org/survey Questions& Feedback:1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram! It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. (Chuck Daly)Stress Grays Our Hair4.5 minutesThe leading cause of premature graying of hair in humans is teaching A&P. Not really. Perhaps. Just seeing if anybody actually reads these notes! But we do know that stress can do it. Here's the mechanism...Stress speeds up hair greying process, science confirms: Fight-or-flight response nerves pump out hormone that wipes out pigmentation cells (news story)my-ap.us/3bPZ8s5How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white (editorial summary from Nature) https://my-ap.us/2V8Pmeo Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells (research article from Nature)my-a...

Source: The A and P Professor - February 23, 2020 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs