There is a lot of work being done in the realm of brain science, and neurological research has come a long way in the last decade. Not only are they mapping the brain, but they are getting very close to understanding exactly how it works, how it stores information, how it retrieves information, how it composes thoughts, and how this incredibly engineered biological device allows us to create.
Brain wave frequencies coincide the human state of mind. According to classic neurophysiology, there are four main brainwave frequencies are beta, alpha, theta, and delta. There are other brainwave frequencies like gamma brain waves, hyper-gamma, lambda and epsilon waves, but the four main frequencies that relate to meditation and classic neurophysiology are beta wave, alpha waves, theta wave, and delta brainwaves.
Alcohol acts directly on the brain of an individual and induces behavioral changes. The person could become depressed or extraordinary lively and talkative because alcohol acts as an inhibition depressant. Various parts of the brain control various functions of the body through a complex network of nerve cells called neurons. Nerve cells communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals.
In the realm of human psychology, we give the term "memory" to that process that allows the storage, retaining, and subsequent recollection of information. While in the earliest years of memory study, it was typically philosophers who addressed this process, in the last two centuries the field has been taken up by practitioners of cognitive psychology. Even more recently, the science of memory has been taken up by the field of cognitive neuroscience, which is a cross between neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
It has been surmised that in the future we will be able to download our human brains and store the memories and information. If we download our brains let's say two times per day, everything will still be very vivid in our memories. If we did it once per day, our recall would be pretty darn good. But what if we could download our brains every 10 minutes, or any time we felt that a significant event in our life was happening - wow, permanent vivid life byte memories.
The scientific development has a strong impact in designing advanced technology for betterment of human brain. The new innovation of neuroscience has helped in designing new treatments, therapies in controlling and maintaining the functions of our brain. The new brain machine technology is capable of tracking the thinking and actions of individuals which has open doors for new innovations.
There have been many studies on people with brain disorders, and their inability to do certain tasks, while other tasks seem to be unaffected. In fact, many of these brain disorders seem to indicate that if you have really good rhythm and are good at dancing to music, it is because you are able to set your body on autopilot, and you are able to disconnect from one part of the brain to the other.
Lithium is a neurotoxin in anything over trace amounts and we know that lithium affects the human brain, as some folks are prescribed it for certain psychological disorders. In the future, we will have more electric cars and these cars will most likely have lithium batteries or batteries that use lithium as one of their components. After all these cars are run out or get into accidents, and are scrapped; those batteries will be taken out, and eventually discarded somewhere.
A lot of times we often confuse whether the brain's size has something to do with its ability. As we all know now, the size of the average modern man's brain is smaller than the ancestor's, but our view of the universe (umweld) is much better compared to theirs. Does this mean that size has nothing to do with the brain's ability? Or there's something that we don't know yet about the mystery of human brain.
Besides the limitations of your historical time and the mentality of your civilization, you are limited by your psychological type and many other inherited behavioral patterns that determine what your reactions will be, according to the stimuli of the environment. In other words, you will often act like an animal, without understanding that you are following the behavioral pattern of your species and repeating what everyone that belongs to your psychological type does.
Creativity is something that even neuroscientists don't know a lot about, and there has been more written on this topic by psychologists, educators, and innovation coaches than just about any other when it comes to what makes the human brain tick. Perhaps, my favorite discussion on the topic is from a TED Video with Sir Ken Robinson, but there are also a number of excellent MIT videos available online on this same topic. Teaching creativity in school is important, but we shouldn't forget that the human mind is inherently set up for creative thought. |