Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Sep 2017)

FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMIC MODEL MANUFACTURE AS A TEACHING AND LEARNING ALTERNATIVE FOR NEUROANATOMY DISCIPLINE

  • Yslaíny Araújo Silva,
  • Edivaldo Xavier Da Silva Júnior,
  • Bruno Nery Da Silva,
  • Gabriella Pereira Rodrigues,
  • Gabriella Oliveira de Sousa,
  • Wbinayara Alves Novaes,
  • Ricardo Kenji Shiosaki,
  • Tarcísio Fulgêncio Alves Da Silva,
  • Paulo Adriano Schwingel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21723/riaee.v12.n.3.2017.8502
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. 1674 – 1688

Abstract

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The neuroanatomy, discipline that studies the structures that make up the nervous system, is complex creating difficulties in its teaching-learning process. In its teaching, practical classes integrate the theoretical using cadavers, synthetic materials and manufactured. These latest assist the understanding of the contents, but in a segmented manner. Get functional integration is an important educational tool in its learning. The aim of the study was to manufacture an alternative functional human neuroanatomical model for the practical classes of neuroanatomy discipline. The study was an action research, descriptive and exploratory, where the model was made by students monitors of the discipline with low cost material. Thus, it was produced a template in a Styrofoam sheet of the human body overcoated with rubber and right hemi-structures of the central nervous system. Have used color inks that represent the natural color of most structures. For the representation of the nerve impulse functionality, led lamps were fixed from the members to the cerebral cortex. Neurons were manufacture and arranged throughout the way of the impulses. We conclude that fabricate functional neuroanatomical models with low cost material, it is feasible and effective, which is believed to contribute to the teaching and learning of neuroanatomy.

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