Researchers have been successful in instilling false memories into the brain of mice. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed the technology to implant false memories in the brain cells of mice. The mice were able to mistakenly associate a kind environment to a prior unpleasant experience from unlike environs. The scientists implanted in genetically […]
New study finds human brain regulates its own sodium intake for entire body
According to a new study by UC Davis researchers published as an article this week in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the human brain naturally regulates its own sodium intake for the entire body. It’s a controversial article based on a research study that has prompted nutritionists to ask more questions than the […]
Anatomy of the Human Brain: Part 3
Many shudder to think that we may have the brain of a reptile. It’s what we came in with, which isn’t really that bad since it performs functions the other sections of the brain don’t. The disheartening thing is that so many of us seldom get out of that part and into the higher forms […]
Anatomy: The Human Brain Part 2
The brain is encased in the skull by 22 bones. There are at least 20,000,000,000 neurons in the neo-cortex section (no one has completed counting them) which are held together by 80,000,000,000 or more (glial) glue cells. Electrical-chemical messages travel 1000 times per second across the synaptic gaps (chemical bridges between brain neurons). Each neuron […]
The Human Brain, Part 1 of a Series
Before getting into information about the brain, so it’s not necessary to spend a lot of time in a medical dictionary, we need to define some words and brain growth patterns. Neurons, cells that communicate events in and outside the body. Axons, cell fibers of a neuron that carry information away. Dendrites, receptors on neurons. […]
5 Superhuman Hacks: How to Unleash Your Full Potential
Back in the 1980’s, Harvard Professor of Medicine, Herbert Benson visited a group of monks living in the Himalayas and discovered that they were able to raise their body temperature by 17 degrees using a yoga technique called Tum-mo. We cannot teach you anything about temperature-rising yoga methods, however, there are different “body hacks” that […]
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