Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast
Summary: Dr Matt Barton and Dr Mike Todorovic are University lecturers and researchers who love discussing the anatomy and physiology of various human systems and explore important clinical correlates.
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- Copyright: Australasian Clinical Education Network
Podcasts:
How do we hear? What is the difference between the outer, middle, and inner ear? What does the cochlear do? How does our hearing compare to other animals? What is Tinnitus? And so much more!!
Everything you wanted to know about the eye & more!!
Dr. Matt & Dr. Mike outline bone structure and function. Why do we have a skeleton? Why is calcium homeostasis important? What is Osteoporosis?
Episode 29 - The Cell
In this episode Dr Matt & Dr Mike discuss cancer! What is it? How does it occur?
Muscular contraction - Botox, Tetanus, Myesthenia gravis.
There are approximately 660 skeletal muscles that make up the human body, how do they work and how are they different to the smooth muscle in our digestive system and the cardiac muscle of our heart??
All diseases are simply a problem with the body maintaining homeostasis - so what is homeostasis??
How do individual atoms create entire organisms?? This podcast outlines how elements within the periodic table are produced and come together, through varying levels of complexity, to form US!!
The amazing adrenal glands produce and release important hormones involved in the stress response of organisms. This includes adrenaline (epinephrine), glucocorticoids (cortisol), sex hormones (androgens), and mineralocorticoids (aldosterone).
Does Donald Trump have Hypothyroidism? Find out here!!
In this episode we explore the anatomy and physiology of the hypothalamus and pituitary. We describe the hormones produced by each and what they do! We also talk about certain diseases that can arise from having either too much or not enough of these hormones!
In Episode 20, Dr. Matt & Dr. Mike go through the 12 pairs of cranial nerves! They explain how to remember their names! How to remember whether they are sensory, motor, or both! AND how to test them clinically!!
How do the fight or flight (Sympathetic) and rest and digest (Parasympathetic) divisions of the autonomic nervous system work? Here we discuss the anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology (including receptors).
- Brain metabolism (sugar, lactate, and ketones) - Frontal lobe (Phineas Gage getting a rod through his head, motor cortex, dementia, and Broca's aphasia - inability to create words) - Parietal lobe (Sensory cortex, phantom limb, neuroplasticity, disowning your own body parts) - Temporal lobe (memory, learning, epilepsy and religious experiences, Wernicke's aphasia - word-salad) - Occpital lobe (interpreting vision, visual disorders) - Insula (food avoidance after food poisoning) - Corpus Callosum (Split brain experiment, separating consciousness, confabulation) - Cerebellum (proprioception, balance, cerebral ataxia, walking on all four limbs, getting drunk)
