Medical Report

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Lt. Jas McCellan

Chief medical officer

Medical Report

TO: General Personnel, Commodore Moose and Commander Moose

RE: Lt. Sergio Giovanni, CSCI

RE: Brain Activity ... Blockage

 

 

 

This report is regarding the recent medical experiment? Trial? Which ever word fits the description will be fine. In detail of the Vulcan mindmeld, the monitoring systems observed severe Neurological delay at several million points along the membranes of the Cerebrum of both subjects. In further study with scans from other crew members and Various feline subjects I safely conclude that Brain activity blockage is occuring in only two people, I did not have time to coordinate this large scale testing due to an urgent trip to Earth.

 

Further analysis of the data revealed that in four isolated parts of the delay, clear evidence that Acetylcholine, a basic neurotransmitter, will not diffuse to its designated target neuron, instead it is dispersed to surrounding Dendrites instead, no potential charge was carried out due to this. My only hypothesis is that, those neurons are under the influence of a unknown source, though chemically healthy and normal, they are unable to carry out their designed function. Cause is unknown.

 

Data charts recorded during the meld revealed that saturation of neurotransmitter molecules, inside the targetted neurons during their access, was 50% lower than its surrounding counter parts, no potential charge movement occured. However the surrounding Dendrites had a 25% higher chemical count, the resulting charge was higher there. Normal threshold for discharge for sensory and interneurons is - 50 mv but the action potential in the targetted neurons were more than - 90 mv's, below the repolarization potential. Cause is unknown.

 

I would request a larger scale testing of the crew to see if we may be looking at a very strange illness.

 

End Report.

 

The doctor sighed, hoped that it is just an isolated thing. She stood and shut off her consoles and moved to the door, Earth was just a foot step away ...