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Category Archives: Human Brain
Mechanisms of Human Brain Evolution Still at Work
What Genetic Mechanisms Made Human Brains so Large? It is not a specific gene that makes the human brain so large. It is instead a segment [Olduvai protein domains]] of a specific gene family [NBPF] that is repeated many times … Continue reading
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Jordan Peterson in Clown Suit Speaks Profound Truth
Often the court jester is the wisest man in the kingdom. Dressing as a clown does not negate the truth in what a man says. In a recent interview with cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, Jordan Peterson delves into deep issues … Continue reading
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The Synergism of Intelligent Minds: Jordan Peterson, Andrew Huberman
The video interaction between psychologist Jordan Peterson and neuroscientist Andrew Huberman is a classic example of what happens when two intelligent minds meet on the same wavelength in order to share cutting edge knowledge. Each man has his areas of … Continue reading
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A Growing Brain Needs to Move and Go Places
Human cognition is based upon the simple concept of movement. The more the growing human moves — and is given good feedback on his movement — the better the brain can grow and integrate its many potential functions. Conversely, if … Continue reading
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All Your Brains Am Belonging to Us
China is developing terrifying brain control weapons which could be used to paralyze and control its enemies and its own people, a report says. NYPost China is rushing to seize the military high ground in the various fields of brain … Continue reading
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Human Brain Networks in Sleep, Anesthesia, Psychoses, Delirium
Human consciousness and other large scale brain functions are thought to be mediated by brain networks that involve synchronous communication between distant brain regions. Whenever the brain undergoes an altered state of consciousness, it is expected that there is an … Continue reading
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The Amygdala and Persistent Dark Mood
Surviving on the wild savannah without amygdalas would have been difficult for ancestral tribes of humans. But it is no picnic trying to be happy in modern hectic times with our amygdalas. Recent research by U. Miami psychologists published in … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, emotions, Enlightenment, Human Brain, meditation
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Can Your Cinnamon Do This?
Can your cinnamon prevent Alzheimer’s, cure cancer before it starts, control type II diabetes, reverse some effects of Traumatic Brain Injury, prevent heart disease, make you smarter, and promote healthy weight loss? Cinnamon contains vital oils and derivatives which makes … Continue reading
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Black History Month: Will it Ever be Black Future Month?
Or put more clearly: Do black people have a future? Every year as the US once again celebrates “Black History Month,” everyone tries to ignore the fact that blacks still lag in educational achievement, in life expectancy, in wealth and … Continue reading
Anger is All the Rage: Be Prepared
The modern age of “social justice” is being propelled by anger and rage. Children are groomed for victimhood from kindergarten onward, and by the time they reach college age, they are primed to rumble. The link above suggests that keeping … Continue reading
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Can Innate IQ Inequalities be Corrected Using Brain Science?
Different human breeding populations evolved on different continents, reacting to disparate environmental conditions in different genetic ways. The outward differences between different breeding populations are obvious. The inward differences — including a stratification by IQ due to differently evolved brains … Continue reading
A Modern Curse: Depression and Anxiety
Depressive symptoms are common in over 30% of women and 20% of men. Anxiety is seen in over 20% of men and women. Heritability for depression is around 40%, meaning that it often travels in families. Of those with depression, … Continue reading
Are Humans Losing their Grip on Complex Thinking?
We are animals that specialize in thinking and knowing—in cognition—and our extraordinary cognitive powers have enabled us to do remarkable things. We have transformed our eating habits with agriculture and cooking, and transformed our habitats with buildings, bridges and roads. … Continue reading
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Finally an Authentic Approach to Anti-Aging
DNA damage is common to our cells, but when we’re young our bodies can fix it pretty easily. Unfortunately we lose that ability over time, leading to many of the symptoms of aging that we know all too well. A … Continue reading
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Tagged dementia, longevity
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This is Mind Control to Major Tom
This is mind control to major Tom, you’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare This is major Tom to mind control, I’m … Continue reading
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Can A Single Neuron Understand the Whole Brain?
Neuroscientists are beginning to ask themselves: Can a human brain understand the human brain? The sheer amount of descriptive data on the brain being generated in neuroscience labs is terribly daunting — and is being described as “an existential crisis” … Continue reading
Four Paths to Savant Mental Skills
Savant skills are typically confined to five areas: art, music, calendar calculating, mathematics and mechanical/spatial skills (Treffert 2005). These skills are [ed: in brain-damaged savants] accompanied by an exceptional ability to recall meaningless detail—memory without understanding (Sacks 2007) and a … Continue reading
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Evolution and Human Cognition
Since the split from the chimpanzee lineage, the human brain has increased three-fold in size and has acquired abilities for vocal learning, language and intense cooperation. … the increasing availability of genome sequences from humans, chimpanzees and other primates, as … Continue reading
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Augmenting Human Cognition
It is important to understand that human cognitive ability is strongly influenced by genes — with the genetic influence generally increasing as a person grows older, from about 40% heritability in childhood to roughly 80% heritability in late maturity. Intelligence … Continue reading
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Psychedelic Drugs for PTSD, Depression, Addiction
First Medical Marijuana, Next Medical Psychedelics? Western societies are marching toward a world where the use of psychedelic drugs in medicine will be commonplace. Some of the applications for these drugs are discussed below: In March, the U.S. Food and … Continue reading
Stark, Undeniable Differences in the Brains of Men and Women
Perhaps twenty or thirty years ago an educated person might have been excused for denying any differences in structure and function between the brains of human males and human females. But things have changed. … over the past 15 years … Continue reading
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How to Make a 60 Year Old Brain Work Like a 20 Year Old’s
Theta-gamma nerve coupling between brain regions is key to cognitive functioning Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a new study … Continue reading
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Adult Neurogenesis, and BDNF
Human brains generate new neurons throughout life. This miracle of lifelong brain regeneration allows lifelong learning, and is driven by complex interacting processes. One of the biological factors that can stimulate the formation of new brain neurons is the neurotrophic … Continue reading
We are Living in an Alzheimer World
We Must Take a More Intelligent Approach to Dementia Emerging evidence suggests that Alzheimer’s-related brain changes may result from a complex interplay among abnormal tau and beta-amyloid proteins and several other factors. It appears that abnormal tau accumulates in specific … Continue reading
Sprucing Up Your Brain With Potent Psychedelics
This figure shows the effects of three psychedelics and one control (VEH) on cortical neurons. … A new study, published June 12 in the journal Cell Reports, found psychedelics, specifically DOI, DMT, and LSD, can change brain cells in rats … Continue reading
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