Human Brain

As many of you know, as people are getting older, there have been advances in the cancer research cardiovascular disease research many people who would have died in their 50s and 60s from those diseases are living in the danger zone for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. It is projected that by 2050 the number of people with Alzheimer's disease will triple from what it is today. It is 5 million today and it will be 15 million by 2050. In Mark Mattson's lab who is the chief of the laboratory of Neuroscience at National Institute on Aging and he is also a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University, they use a number of different animal models that are relevant to age-related neurodegenerative disorders. They have mice that accumulate amyloid in their brain as they get older and they have learning and memory problems. They also have mice that have damage to dopamine-producing neurons that control body movements that is Mylo -Parkinson's disease. They ...

E ver since I was a young child I was determined to understand how the entire universe worked and that fascination led me to develop a passion for reading in myself. Years after being a student of knowledge I  think I am slowly kind of maturing out of it and entering the world of people. It turns out that the world of people is more complex to understand than the entire universe. But I'm trying to stay with it, and in the process of trying to comprehend the complexity of social world, I've managed to score some observations about people.  Today via this blog I want to share with you  a little bit of what I've learnt. In this quest to understand people, I gotten very interested in the gaps that still remain for us as human beings and us as civilization, relative to the challenges that are in front of us.  One of those gapes that I have seen is around this concept and the concept is really simple one, It's the concept that "Everything Is Connected". You'v...

So how do we learn and why does some of us learn things more easily than others. These are the questions that fascinate me. The brain research is one of the great frontiers in the understanding of human physiology and also in the consideration of what makes us who we are. what we know about brain is changing at breath taking pace  much of it we thought we knew and understood  about the brain turns out to be not true or incomplete. Now somebody’s misconceptions are more obvious to others for example we used to think that after childhood the brain didn’t or really could not change and it turns out that nothing could be farther from the truth. Another misconception about the brain is that you only use the parts of it at any given time and silent when you do nothing, well this is also untrue, it turns out even when you are at rest and thinking of nothing your brain is highly active. So it has been advances and technologies such as MRI that has allowed us...

Friday, August 31, 2018 11:13 PM One of the things that I enjoy more than anything else is learning new things , getting curious about something and diving in and fiddling around and learning through trials and error and eventually becoming pretty good at something. I am a big geek, I want to keep learning things I want to keep growing . So what I decided to do was go to the library and go to the bookstore and look at what research says about how we learn and how we learn quickly. I read a bunch of books ,a bunch of websites . Trying to answer this question how long does it take to acquire a new skill? You know what I found… 10000 hours ,It takes 10000 hours. If you want to learn something new, if you want to be good at it, it is going to take 10000 hours to get there. I read this in book after book, in website after website . My mental experience of reading all this staff was like NOOO!!! I don't have time, I don't have 10000 hours. I thought I am never going to be a...

What is so special about human brain ,why is that we study other animals instead of them studying us ,what does the human brain have or do that no other brain does when I became interested in these questions ,I began to research about it . Scientists thought they new what different brains are made of although it was based on very little evidence , many scientists thought that all mammalian brains including the human brain were made in the same way with the number of neurons that was always propositional to the size of brain, this means that two brains of the same size lets say brain of a champ and a cow should have similar number of neurons .now if the neurons are the functional information processing units of brain then   these two owners of brain with same size should have similar cognitive abilities ,now may be the cows have a really rich internal mental life and are so smart and they chose to not let us realize it but we eat them . I think most people will agree that champs ...