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Watch Out For Self-fulfilling Prophesy
By: Steph Gibson, She Her
Tags: Mindset, Self Fulfilling Prophecy, Brain, Self Improvement, Mental Health

Mental health issues are a beast to overcome. I understand that sometimes it is extremely difficult to control our thoughts. Some require help through therapy and/or medication. But some just can’t seem to help themselves.

Have you ever been around people who just drain your energy because they are really negative all the time? They’re also paranoid and suspicious about everything and everyone. You find yourself having to reassure them, encourage them, and even convince them over and over again. Every conversation is tiresome.

I’ve been around people, in my personal and professional life, who constantly make themselves the victim in every scenario. From them thinking that people are talking bad about them, to them believing that people don’t like them… to them thinking that you are lying to them or keeping information from them… to them blowing up a small setback into something that’s almost the end of the world… among many other examples.

The thing about people like this is that eventually they will start experiencing self-fulfilling prophecies.

Wikipedia defines a self-fulfilling prophecy as the sociopsychological phenomenon of someone “predicting” or expecting something, and this “prediction” or expectation coming true simply because the person believes it will and the person’s resulting behaviors align to fulfill the belief.

Generally, people tend to shy away from very negative people. There have been times when I consciously had to make an effort to stop being around people who bring me down — simply because I wasn’t strong enough mentally to hold them up and I had to take care of my own mental health.

Our minds make up scenarios that are believable. It could work well for some… i.e. manifesting and believing a good scenario for yourself to which you tend to do things to make that happen. Or it could serve you detrimentally and uproot issues like insecurity and depression.

It’s a vicious cycle because if a person always thinks that people dislike them, they exhibit behaviors that are repulsive, causing others to stay away or avoid them. In their minds, people avoiding them have now become their proof-point to being disliked.
The Humanism Ideas Diet: The End of Alzheimer’s
By: Dwight Gilbert Jones
Tags: Dementia, Low Carb, Brain, Bredesen Protocol, Alzheimers

“What we call Alzheimer’s disease is actually a protective response to a wide variety of insults to the brain: inflammation, insulin resistance, toxins, infections, and inadequate levels of nutrients, hormones, and growth factors.”

Dr. Dhru Purohit and Dr. Dale Bredesen illustrate what measures are most likely to reverse a decline in cognition. The foundation they propose begins with low carb, nutritional sufficiency, and an eye for toxins. Their discussion of fungal threats is a novel perspective on the expanding biological landscape that must be factored into ending the dementia epidemic.
What constrained our imaginations about how our brains might really be working?
By: Bernard Baars
Tags: Neuroscience, Podcast Recommendations, Brain, Consciousness, Podcast Episodes

In October, my colleague Dr. David Edelman and I were guests on a popular podcast, BRAIN SCIENCE With Ginger Campbell, MD.

Our wide-ranging discussion covered a variety of neuroscience topics but focused primarily on the origins of Global Workspace Theory (GWT) which is a model of consciousness I developed in the 1980s. The central idea of GWT is that conscious cognitive content is globally available for diverse cognitive processes including attention, evaluation, memory, and verbal report.

BRAIN SCIENCE With Ginger Campbell, MD was launched in 2006 by Dr. Ginger Campbell, an experienced emergency physician with a passion for exploring how recent discoveries in neuroscience are revealing how our brains make us who we are. This podcast is for non-scientists, scientists, and everyone in between and Dr. Edelman and I were both thrilled to have been invited on to Dr. Campbell’s show!
PODCAST EPISODE : When are brains capable of the sensation of being self aware?
By: On Consciousness Podcast
Tags: Neuroscience, Podcast Recommendations, Brain, Consciousness, Podcast Episodes

“If not in the womb, at what point in life do we first have the sensation of being us? In terms of knowing that we’re an individual person… And where that line is crossed, including octopus or other animals, at what point in terms of our brain development are the brains capable of this sensation of being self aware?”

— Dr. Jay Giedd, Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Rady Children’s Hospital & Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine
Cognitive Trade-off
By: David Deubelbeiss
Tags: Linguistics, Blog, Research, Brain

Today, I watched an episode of the Youtube series — Mind Field. It is about a researcher in Japan who studies chimpanzees, especially their short term memory and cognitive abilities.

In the episode, the researcher, Tetsuro Matsuzawa sheds light on his Cognitive Trade-off theory. His hypothesis suggests that the development of human language led to a decrease in human short-term memory. A trade-off. Humans evolved on the savannah and needed language. For language to develop, there had to be a trade-off and this occurred in terms of a decrease in our short-term memory. In the episode, you see chimpanzees performing with ease, short-term memory tasks (basically pattern recognition) that the human host can’t do at all.

It’s an intriguing idea but like all “hypothesis” it really is just that. Can’t be proven and it also has a lot of holes in it.

maybe the differences in short term memory ability between humans and chimps are environmental adaptations and no trade-off needed to occur.

maybe the differences can be accounted to practice and training

maybe humans, living in highly dynamic and hyper social environments allotted more cognitive resources to other things like facial recognition and inner thought.

We also have to wonder about cognition being described as a limited, zero-sum kind of feature with only so much processing power. The brain as a processor model is quite discredited and there are adequate brain resources (over 3 times the neurons of a chimp).

What I found fascinating is the beauty of the hypothesis. But that doesn’t mean it is true that humans de-emphasized short term memory for extraordinary language capacity, which is one mechanism for increased collaboration and altruism in humans.

The episode is very much worth watching and pondering if you are in the field of language learning and teaching. It reminded me of my own pet theory — the cognitive trade-off of a foreign language. I proposed that higher-level foreign language students have a much better short-term memory in their L2 than lower-level students and this can be accounted for by not needing to focus on form (Patten’s Input Processing Hypothesis). As I argue in my article — it also is a sound basis and way to quickly determine a student’s language level. Someone should make a quick placement test for language students based on short-term recall.

The brain remains a big mystery in so many ways. We need much more research, we even still don’t understand the basics. But still, it is stimulating to think of these beautiful theories …
LEVERAGING YOUR INNATE ABILITY
By: Lateef Ismaila James
Tags: Trump, Ability, Simon Sinek, Oprah Winfrey, Brain

LEVERAGING YOUR INNATE ABILITY

To be emphatic, everyone has innate ability! An innate ability is the inborn endowment which distinguishes you from others. However, it's quite unfortunate that many are ignorant of their endowments!

A witty saying states, " An ignorant man who is ignorant of his ignorance is the head of the ignoramus." Many are in the wrong professions because of the ignorance of their inborn gifts. Or may be they don't believe in themselves.

To buttress my points, l would like to compare some things. Let's look at the shark and the lion. Both of them are kings in the animal kingdoms. But if we were to swap them, that is putting the lion in the sea and the shark on the land. Without any iota of doubt, both animals would meet their waterloos!

Also, when we juxtapose salt and sugar, they are both white. However, they have their pros and cons! Imagine if you were to put sugar in the soup and salt in the tea. People would not patronize your business! Of course they are both valuable but they are different in usage. Know your territory!

Let me conclude with the story of a student I read about. His father wanted him to be a Medical Doctor but his interest is in Journalism. What a contrast! He actually went for the Medicine and Surgery. But he was failing repeatedly. Eventually, he had to quit!

He later went to study Mass Communication and came out with first class degree. To be factual, no one can know you better than you know yourself! Look inwards, wake up those sleeping gifts in you and bless the world with the innate ability. Remember, "The you in you makes the you out of you!"

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#youthcoach

#acronymexpert

#GiverOfDestiny(GOD)
DAILY SOI: On Brain, Thoughts, and Beliefs
By: Mateo Melichar
Tags: Belief, Positive Thinking, Brain, Thoughts, Positivity

DAILY SOI: On Brain, Thoughts, and Beliefs

What’s going on in your mind is pre-programmed software. But like every software, it needs updates, and sometimes more effective software replaces the old one. Some of us still run on the old software. This can cause the software not to be in alignment with other parts of the computer. Mateo Melichar Follow Dec 15, 2020 · 2 min read

Your brain

Your physical make-up, your brain, it’s the computer that runs the daily operations without you even noticing. It’s great because it saves you loads of time not having to pay attention to everything. It’s also advantageous when we make decisions. Is it safe for us or dangerous?

That’s why we have the amygdala part of the brain built-in to protect us from harm. When a car is speeding by, we stop on time and don’t jump under the wheels. This mechanism also can stand in the way of us when we try to change a career, move to a new city, take on a new challenge.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. Louis Nizer

Our thoughts

Our thoughts run daily in the background. They bounce back and forth and dictate our day's quality. It’s thoughts about food, desires, beliefs, world, spouse, kids, where we live, our boss. It’s endless.

Many of these thoughts repeat, and it’s up to us to refresh them once in a while.

A new study has found the average person has more than 6000 thoughts every day. Researchers have developed a new way to determine the beginning and end of each thought. Identifying this moment as a “thought worm” has allowed scientists to calculate exactly how many we have a day — and the average was a staggering 6200.

Our believes

Our thoughts make us feel good or bad. Is that simple? If we think about negative events, that’s what the brain will try to focus more on. Therefore, we have to be careful about what we pay attention to. That’s not always easy, as we are constantly begged for attention from commercials, people that try to sell to us.

Your reality is reflection of your strongest beliefs. — Unknown

So, go out and stay safe! Seek constantly how to upgrade your brain, thoughts, and beliefs. Read, speak to friends, be interested in your wellbeing, and prioritize your personal development. Make psychology and neuroscience your best friends!
Brain Plasticity and The Reason Why We Dream
By: Vinicius Monteiro
Tags: Neuroscience, Brain, Neuroplasticity, Dreams, Science

The Reason Why We Dream

Ray Charles, Ronnie Milsap, Andrea Bocelli, Stevie Wonder. All of them lost their sight and are marvellous musicians — it’s not by coincidence. When a person becomes blind, the area of the brain responsible for the vision stops being excited. This results in other areas taking over the territory that was once occupied by the occipital cortex. Other areas such as the ones responsible for sound and smell, expand and take up more real estate. Hence these senses become sharper. This process happens for other impairments as well. In the deaf, the auditory cortex ends up being used for vision.

After learning how the brain reorganizes upon losing a sense, you might ask — how long does it take for the brain to start changing and the areas to take over the sense lost?

It’s fast.

The researcher Alvaro Pascual-Leone did an experiment to measure exactly that. He wanted to know the speed at which the brain applies such changes. He blindfolded sighted participants for five days and kept training them at braille. Day after day, the participants would show improvement. At the end of the five days, their brains were measured in the scanner, and it showed that their occipital cortex (vision) was activated when they were touching objects! After the blindfold was removed, the brain would come back to its previous state within a day. It was remarkable to see how quickly neural reorganization can happen.

But wait! That’s not all.

In another experiment, participants would have their brains scanned at the same time as being blindfolded. They would perform various touching tasks while having the brain mapped out. It was noticed that brain reorganization would happen as rapidly as in 40 to 60 minutes!

Considering how quickly the brain reorganizes, it’s suggested that dreams are a defence mechanism. When we go to sleep, our vision cortex finds itself in a disadvantage. If you think about it, it’s the only sense that is lost — we are still able to hear, taste, feel and smell. It’s unfair.

The brain, to protect the visual cortex from being taken over, creates images and videos internally (the dreams) and we see with our eyes shut. This way, vision is safe.

Here’s a quote from the book:
New research shows why anyone with high blood pressure — nearly half of U.S.
By: Robert Roy Britt
Tags: Health, Hypertension, Brain, High Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure

New research shows why anyone with high blood pressure — nearly half of U.S. adults — should seek to lower it. High blood pressure, or hypertension, can accelerate the decline in brain function, including memory, concentration and verbal skills, scientists report today in the journal Hypertension.

The cognitive decline occurs whether the hypertension starts early in life or much later.

“Effectively treating high blood pressure at any age in adulthood could reduce or prevent this acceleration,” says study author Sandhi Barreto, MD, professor of medicine at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. “Collectively, the findings suggest hypertension needs to be prevented, diagnosed and effectively treated in adults of any age to preserve cognitive function.”

The findings add to evidence in a feature article I wrote last year defining hypertension and revealing the rising problem:
Phones To Predict Brain Activity
By: Theodore, Ted
Tags: Neuroscience, Smartphones, Psychology, Brain

Smartphones are an essential part of everyday life for many. While companies can learn about many users based on smartphone usage, could characteristics like social activity, screen time, and location (categorized as passive sensing information) predict connectivity between regions of the brain? This is what a team of researchers from Dartmouth College sought to explore.

In their paper, published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, the research team describes how they recruited 105 first-year undergraduate students (75 female). The participants had their brain scanned (via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)) and installed an app to collect passive sensing data on their Apple or Android smartphone. While the brain scan occurred as classes started, the phone app continued to collect data for the fall term’s full duration (79 days).

In analyzing the passive sensing data and comparing it to the participants’ fMRI scans, the researchers discovered that the data collected via the smartphone app was able to show neural activity between various brain regions. The smartphone data also allowed the researchers to identify neural activity consistent with anxiety and depression. In comparing the passive activity collected on the phone with that of the fMRI brain imaging, the researchers found that the prediction accuracy was 79.3%. These findings are remarkable because they suggested alternative methods of identifying certain mental disorders that are cheaper and less invasive than an fMRI scanner. The researchers noted that, to their knowledge, this was the first time any research team was able to achieve such a high degree of accuracy when using smartphones as the primary data source.

While replicating these findings is still necessary, this study presents a less-invasive approach to identifying behavior that can predict neural activity or indicate precursors of mental disorders. Our actions can say a lot about us. As these findings suggest, this extends into our actions in interacting with our smartphones and is not limited to observations made in-person or via video conferencing. If you know what to look for, everyone has a series of tells.

This was Article 152 from the Studio Quick Facts Series.

Please note, this is the last Studio Quick Fact for 2020. Our next article will be posted on January 11, 2021.
The Brain is a Fear Super-fan
By: Sam Led
Tags: Wisdom, Anxiety, Brain, Advice, Fear

Photo by Tonik on Unsplash

Conquered through an argument. Conquered through reactivity. Reactivity in front of an argument. No matter how much yelling it took. Then I saw it. My suffering in the argument. My suffering in the reactivity. My suffering in my thinking.

I saw the chaos. The chaos of thought turbulence. Sped up thought. Sped up and suffering. Sped up and suffering in a thought based experience. A very human experience. Called thought. Very normal. But not the truth. Not who I am. Not who you are. And there it was. Just like that. It turned me on to the teaching of mind/thought/consciousness. Discovered by an everyday man. An everyday man named Sydney Banks.

I am that everyday man. I am that everyday man who sees my peace. Sees my calm. Sees my quiet. Amidst the chaos of disatisfaction. Amidst the tumult childhood demons. Childhood frailties. Than it happened. Happened on an average ordinary day. It was on that ordinary day I saw the chaos. The chaos of my thinking. Innocently convincing me. A convincing me of a story. A story in the moment. A truth in the blink of an eye. A contrived truth. A contrived truth sponsored by a supercomputer. A supercomputer called the brain. A brain making it all up in real time by the ultimate fear superfan.

A fear super-fan called your brain.

It is not on purpose. It is just part of an experience. Written, produced, and directed by your personal mind. A personal mind replaying a narrative. A narrative called habitual thought. Habitual thought your brain replays over and over and over again. Like a 1980’s auto reverse cassette deck. Your brain thinks will keep you safe. But when it comes down to it thought and thinking cannot protect you. Inner wisdom (underneath thought) protects you. Your inner resilience (underneath thought) protects you. Underneath the brain’s technicolor neural “cineplex.”

This is the secret sauce. A wonderful space. A space you all experience. That space called stillness. In that stillness you see your resilience. Resillience in your partner. Resilience in your children. Resilience in world leaders.

Most important, resilience in yourself.
Power of Unconscious Mind
By: Hamid Zia
Tags: Obsessions, Unconscious, Mind, Brain, Power

Power of Unconscious Mind

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Use of unconscious mind is most underutilized power and can do wonders when used in right direction. It is like a background process that keeps working for you even you are not explicitly focusing on it.

Have you ever woken up in the middle of night with a solution to some issue in mind that you could not solve earlier during the day? Did a solution to some complex problem ever clicked to you at a random moment when you were not even focused on that problem? There is a part of our brain that keeps working on things that we really care about even if we are not explicitly focused on them. Most people who have achieved something extra ordinary usually first become obsess with it. Whether it is about a personal goal in life, a task at work, something about health or family; if they want it real bad then the subconscious mind prioritizes it over other things.

The good news is that you train and control your subconscious thinking. As a matter of fact, you already do it but you are just not aware about it. Just like you become average of 5 people you are friends with, you subconscious mind also picks up the things you are obsessed with. And then you start moving towards those goals even faster. All the dreams and plans are first materialized in your mind and once you strongly believe them and become obsess with achieving them, then you have a secret power in form of unconscious mind to accelerate your efforts in that direction.

Lastly, like all great powers, subconscious mind can easily become a source of bringing more bad than good. Whether positive or negative, your unconscious mind will simply amplify your thoughts and focus. If you are upset about something or holding a grudge against someone, you will end up amplifying your negative thoughts through your subconscious mind.

Keep your mind focused on your goals & priorities in life, keep it free from negative and toxic thoughts and the unconscious mind will do its part to do wonders for you.
A Sudoku a day keeps our brain younger.
By: Christian Prabowo
Tags: Sudoku, Puzzle, Brain, Puzzle Game, Brain Training

Image is taken from Instagram @burnoutcigs

Soo-doe-koo

If you hear about Sudoku, you must have thought that this game originated from the East Asian region, but in fact, sudoku was devised by Leonhard Euler, a mathematician in 1783. With the initial designation as a Latin square, this game originally contained 9, 16, 25, and 36 boxes or grid.

The development of modern sudoku was pioneered by Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games in 1979 with the name Number Place, where players had to fill the numbers 1 to 9 on 81 boxes, without repeating any digits per column or row.

Number place became a very popular game at that time, its popularity reached many regions. In 1984 the number place became known in Japan. This game is popular with the name “Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru” but this game had 2 additional rules. The first rule was the allocated numbers at the beginning of each puzzle should create a different pattern and the second rule that no more than 32 out of the 81 total numbers of a traditional grid could be allocated at the beginning.

With these additional rules, Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru reached the peak of popularity and changed its name to Sudoku, which later in 2004 the game was published by The London Times and the rest is history.

Benefits Sudoku to our brain

Playing puzzle games like sudoku or crossword helps train our brain especially in cognitive function. In general, our memory and concentration will get stronger, our mind will be more stimulated, and improves our logical thinking.

The benefits of playing sudoku have been circulating on the internet, but are they true? According to research published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, people aged 50 years and over, who play sudoku more often have better brain function. This research was conducted through several tests to measure attention, memory, and reasoning.

If we talk about the effect of playing sudoku on memory decline, according to dr. Anne Corbett, lead author and dementia lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School, there is no scientific evidence that playing sudoku reduces the risk of dementia. But in the research above, playing puzzle games will help the brain work better for a longer time.

Even though the benefits are not visible to the naked eye, spending free time playing puzzle games is definitely more rewarding to our brain. In addition, this game can help our brains become keen and it can even become a new hobby to do in our spare time.
Why we forget things easily
By: Aren Deu
Tags: Learning, Mindset, Brain, Memories, Productivity

Photo by Morgan Housel on Unsplash

It is quite common to forget things sometimes, and also when you age a bit, it is considered normal to be forgetful. Although there must be a point of normalizing the forgetful behaviour, how can you know it is the time to take this as a severe memory loss? It’s essential to see if it is painful or not.

Here, we would discuss the reasons for forgetting prevalent things like birthdays of your loved ones, special events, or maybe you forget your phone after putting it somewhere near yourself.

So let’s look at some of the points that need to keep in mind why we forget things quickly:

Obstruction

Obstruction is way too familiar, as we all have experienced in our lives. As if someone asks you something and you know the answer, yet it is blurring in your brain to comprehend it. Or might you listen to the song tune and know which song it is but you couldn’t say it. This is just like blocking or might be having difficulty getting a memory clear. On some occasions, the hurdle is a memory that is as same as you want, but you connect with the wrong one. This becomes unwanted that you cannot memorize the memory you desire for.

Most of the research by the known scientists have concluded that usually, obstructions come when you age, and this is a minor problem if we talk about older adults who forget the names of the people and places quickly. Also, humans are capable of retrieving the memory data within a minute.

Biased Memory

Often, you think that this is a clear picture of your memory. Still, it is not because your memory is somehow refining your memories with your own additional experiences, thoughts, and information you might be desiring of. Hence, this is one of the facts that you forget things by getting extra details from your brain and mix them with memory.

It depends on the attitudes and mood of the person at that moment. Moreover, there is no apparent scientific proof yet observed.

Collapse of storage

Some of the information we forget is not that we have forgotten, but it wasn’t supposed to be stored as a long term memory. If the collapses of information get encoded, this could help the memory not enter long-term memory.

Let say you have given an experiment by looking at a particular thing and let you memorize how it was just after that. Would you be able to identify each and everything? Might be you have guessed the color shape or anything about it, but most of the chances are the partial information you have told wrong. The main reason is that your memory of that particular thing was not stored in your long term memory in your brain, which has caused you difficulty reminding its specification correctly.

Depression:

This can be a bit serious as depression gives high stress on your brain that you overthink, making you forget things easily. There is a disease called PTSD that happens when you have experienced traumatic exposure a lot.

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If You Do Any Of Thess Things It Means Your IQ Is WAY Higher Than Anyone Else
Tags: Iq, Overthinking, Brain, Inteligence, Smart

If You Do Any Of Thess Things It Means Your IQ Is WAY Higher Than Anyone Else Alan Dec 11, 2020·2 min read

1. Your “Inner Voice” is Loud

You Know The Voice That You’re Reading This Article in ( Unless You’re Reading it Out Loud), It’s Called Your “Inner Voice”, And If You’re Reading Or Listening To Any Kind of Information Being Given That Little Voice In Your Head Is The Main Thing That You’re Listening, That Means Your IQ is Higher Than an Averege Person

Disclaimer: If You’re in School and Your Grades Are Low, Don’t Let That Define Your Inteligence. You’re Way Smarter Than Your Teacher Might Think You Are, Even if You Think You’re Not. 2. You Argue With Yourself Alot

I Know It Might Seem Dumb But If You Can’t Quiet The Inner Voice In Your Head Than You Could Use it To Your Advantage. Whenever You Think You’re Wrong Try Taking a Diffrent Approach To The Argument, It Might Not Be Right But You Will at Least Strenghten Your Own Argument

3. You Are Curious Or Act Curious

If You’re Always Taking An Extra Mile To Learn Something You Could Be The Next Einstein, If You’re Even Actin Curious About a Certaint Subject You Are Gonna Benefit From Being Curious

4. You’re a Night Owl

If Your Alarm Says Anywhere From 00:00am to 2:00am You Could Be a Night Owl, If You Stay Up Late Studying And Wilingly Trying To Learn More You My Friend Have a High IQ

Now Don’t Get It Confused, If You Stay Up Late Scrolling Through Instagram And TikTok You’re Simply Just Lazy, I Suggest You Find a Hobby or Interest That Will Keep You Busy at Night

But Still Try Getting 7–8 Hours of Sleep Everyday ;)

5. You Are Worried About The Smallest Things

Have You Overthinked About a Simple Thing Like: “Should I Walk My Dog Tommorow In The Morning Or Now”, And You Spend Half an Hour Thinking About a Simple Thing That Won’t Even Matter In The Future

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Meditation an art of living
Tags: Life, Brain, Focus, Sprituality

“Feelings come and go like a cloud in windy sky. Concious Breathing is my anchor.”

-Thich Nhat Hahn

Suppose when your phone lags or hangs what do you do. You restarts it or remove some unwanted files apps etc. But what will you do when you feel stressed disturbed or you want peace you want to feel relaxed then what will you do. You should do meditation in that case.

Mediation is not being practiced from today but from ancient times In ancient religions like Hinduism and buddhism we found that Meditation is being practised from ancient times and it is popular today too. So now the question arises that what is meditation and how it is effective for our brain

WHAT IS MEDITATION.

The practise of focusing on a particular topic without getting distracted is called Meditation. It is practiced to get relief from stress, problems and many more. It is an effective exercise for brain as it is sharpens your Focus it increases your Concentration,Creativity.

History of Meditation.

In ancient books the topic of meditation is also mentioned so it indicates it is veing practiced from thousands of years. In Hinduism Meditation is also known as Dhýana which is a part of yoga which is practiced It is also mentioned in Buddhism even lord Buddha used to practice meditation so you can understand how old the meditation is.

Benifits of Meditation.

Meditation is very good for brain it is a great technique to sharpen your Focus, Concentration, Creativity etc. Some of the benifits of meditation are

Increasing your self awareness Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations Reducing negative emotions Increasing imagination and creativity Increasing Tolerance andd patience Focusing on the present

Effects of Meditation

Studies have found that regular practice meditation increases the protein BNDF in the brain improving cellular health, reduces the rate of aging within cells and a reduction of grey matter decay in the brain making it possible for higher neuroplasticity over longer periods of time It also reduces anxiety.

-Krishna

Written on 10 December 2020
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Tags: Knowledge, Google, Brain, Information, Brainfingerprinting

Brain Fingerprinting : An idea of what’s it about!!!!!!!!!

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Brain fingerprinting — belt to suspect triggering neutrons inside the Brain!!!!!!!!!

What is brain fingerprinting? Brain electrical oscillation signature profiling is a method of interrogation where the suspect’s participation in the crime is investigated by studying the brain’s response. A neuro-psychological method of interrogation in which the suspects participation in the crime is investigated by studying the brain’s response. *** It uses the Electroencephalography (EEG) to study the electrical behaviour of the human brain. The suspect is made to sit in a comfortable chair in a soundproof room with a cap having dozens of electrodes attached to it. The other ends of the electrodes are connected to an electroencephalographic (EEG) machine. To check the activity and triggering of neuron’s in the suspect’s brain which then generate brainwaves due to documents shown to the suspect which are related to the case. What is P300? The P300 is a component of the event-related brain potential (ERP) . It means that the response is electrically positive (P) and has a latency of at least 300 ms (300)

What is P300-MERMER?

P300-MERMER is a memory and encoding related multifaceted electroencephalographic response. It comes along with the head gear. P300 is based on oddball paradigm.

MERMER- Memory and Encoding Related Multifaceted Electroencephalographic response.

Detection of brain waves due to guilt:

Different coloured lines: Red — (Theta) — Information is expected to know; Green — (Alpha) — Information not to suspect; Blue- (Beta) Information of the crime that only perpetrator would know.

The test is based on two phenomenons: Knowledge and Experience

Knowledge: The suspect’s brain might have knowledge about the crime committed and the alibi they have come up with.

Experience: The suspect’s experience of having participated in the crime determines the guilt.

* When brain fingerprinting was first used?

Dr.Farwell conducted a Brain Fingerprinting test on murder suspect- A woodcutter named James Grinder confessed murdering a woman named Julie Helton. The test proved that the record stored in Grinder’s brain matched the scene of the murder of the Julie Helton.

It is a computer based technology designed to determine hidden information in individual’s brain by measuring electrical brain wave responses to words, phrases, or pictures presented on a computer screen.
Drug Turns Back the Clock in Aged Brains
By: Tara Fernandez
Tags: Neuroscience, Aging, Drug Discovery, Inventions, Brain

Drug Turns Back the Clock in Aged Brains

When faced with stressful stimuli — anything from oxygen or nutrient deprivation to viral infections — cells have in-built safety mechanisms to ensure their survival. This elaborate series of biochemical events is known as the integrated stress response. Once initiated, a cell in this state shuts down its protein production machinery.

The integrated stress response is of particular interest to neuroscientists as these physiological safety switches have been found to be turned on in neural cells affected by traumatic brain injury, aging, and neurodegenerative disease. The question is — what if they could reset these safety switches, turning them back off again? Does this mean the cognitive impairment associated with these conditions is not as permanent as we once thought?

Scientists have made the exciting discovery that a recently-discovered drug is indeed capable of kickstarting neural cells in standby mode, getting their protein synthesis systems back online, and most promisingly, restoring cognitive function.

The drug, called ISRIB (integrated stress response inhibitor), is a product of studies by investigators at UCSF. Earlier experiments that involved administering ISRIB treatment to mice with traumatic brain injuries showed spectacular results: normal brain function was restored in a matter of hours.

“We’ve seen how ISRIB restores cognition in animals with traumatic brain injury, which in many ways is like a sped-up version of age-related cognitive decline,” commented study lead Susanna Rosi, professor of Neurological Surgery at UCSF. “It may seem like a crazy idea, but asking whether the drug could reverse symptoms of aging itself was just a logical next step.”

In their latest study, Rosi and colleagues were interested in ISRIB’s potential to reverse cognitive impairment associated with aging. Two cohorts of mice (one aged and one young) were trained to navigate a maze — a cognitive task much easier for the younger mice to handle. When given a daily dose of ISRIB, however, the older mice were able to keep up with their youthful counterparts, outperforming other elderly mice who did not receive the medication. All this with no observable side effects.

Taking a closer look at the mechanism behind this boost of cognitive power, the investigators identified two key pathways that ISRIB improved: neurological activity in the hippocampus and reducing the activity of inflammatory immune cells in the brain. T cells are particularly susceptible to dysfunction as a result of aging, which has been linked to the brain’s elevated inflammatory state in conditions such as Alzheimer’s.

“This was very exciting to me because we know that aging has a profound and persistent effect on T cells and that these changes can affect brain function in the hippocampus,” said Rosi.

“At the moment, this is just an interesting observation, but it gives us a very exciting set of biological puzzles to solve.”
Telling false stories to our children is favorable? Is Santa Claus beneficial?
By: Jorge Castro
Tags: Neuroscience, Brain, Politics

Telling false stories to our children is favorable? Is Santa Claus beneficial? Jorge Castro ·Dec 10, 2020

Cheating is dangerous. Using false stories to manipulate our children, so they perform what we want, unconsciously, we are programming their brains to adopt this method as good because it is pragmatic and beneficial. We use their ingenuity and misconception for the greater good. If this method echoes for many years, as adults, we accept abuse from politicians, leaders, and corporations, even when data and evidence are available and enormous. The economy evolves, inventing surplus wants, and aspirations. We condemn our governors as liars but can not act; we only witness egomaniacs and sociopaths committing conflict as kids powerless in a dysfunctional household.
A Connected World
By: Eric Patton
Tags: Technology, Brain, Connectivity, Elon Musk

The internet is a beautiful thing. We have come a long way from AOL dial-up days to 4g. It is amazing to see new ideas that push the envelope. I read an article by Rachel Metz, titled “Elon Musk shows off a working brain implant — in pigs”, interesting to say the least. Rachel mentioned Elon Musk is currently experimenting with pigs. His experiment injects implants in the heads of pigs. The chip is supposed to enhance the pig’s brain activity. This mechanism is surgically implanted inside of the brain by a machine. Another device will be located in the back of a person’s ear, which connects to a computer. Musk stated that if the chip is sufficient enough for a pig that it will be robust enough for humans. Interesting enough, this type of idea isn’t new, “Neuralink, which was founded in 2016, has previously tested a wired version of its implant in rats (and Musk indicated it has enabled a monkey to control a computer with its brain, as well)”(Metz). Tesla has become the model for the electric car industry, space exploration, and currently brain technology. I feel that it is important for society to have individuals such as Elon Musk to help advance human society. This chip could be the technology we need to cure diseases, aid with depression, dementia, and many other positive advantages. But, there could also be a downside to this chip. What if your brain was hacked? What would the damage ultimately be? and who would be at fault? This remains a mystery of course, but the negative effects could potentially outweigh the positive. This idea reminds me of the movie I Robot. When the other robots were controlled to ultimately end the human race. Or, will we live in a real-life version of Minority Report? I guess the question is will you be the first person to get a chip? In the world we currently live in this is not too far fetch. Or we go as far as making this chip government mandate, like the coronavirus vaccine.

Metz, R. (2020, August 31). Elon Musk shows off a working brain implant — in pigs. Retrieved December 09, 2020, from https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/tech/elon-musk-neuralink/index.html
How can I improve mental performance and brain health for better productivity and creativity?
By: Ashish Badola
Tags: Mental, Mental Illness, Mind, Brain, Mental Health

This is a very important and most relevant question for today’s time. In a world, where everyone is competing among themselves, it is not easy to stay sane and productive all the time. Maybe you are a professional, a student, an entrepreneur who is just starting. On a daily basis, we are managing and fighting at multiple fronts to do better, to outperform the competition, and stay ahead.

While we are at it, many times we experience these challenges of getting overly worked, feeling mentally drained and tired, getting stressed out, which results in making poor decisions at work or while studying and it yields suboptimal results. We get anxious, lose focus, start procrastinating and things start to fall apart. Well, do not feel lonely, it actually happens to the best of us.

However, this need not be a permanent situation, improving productivity, learning ability, staying focused and top of your game need not be so tough if we all understand one very important thing that 88% of c-suit executives in fortune 500 companies do, that is to always take care of your brain.

According to a study by Harvard Business School, it is found that 88% of c-suite executives in fortune 500 companies and about 76% of Ivy League college-goers in the USA use brain supplements every day. These specific supplements are designed to better productivity and learning by improving focus, mental clarity, memory, keeping minds calm under stressful situations, and boosting confidence as an obvious outcome.

These brain supplements are clinically studied and proven to improve mental performance and brain health by maintaining optimum levels of choline, alpha brain wave production in the mind which are associated with higher brain performance, creativity, and learning.

Ultra Brain from giver nutrition is among the best brain supplement that is available in India, it contains 9 natural ingredients which are highly backed with clinical data to support peak mental performance making it an absolutely essential brain supplement designed for high performing professionals, athletes and students, who want to stay at top of their game all the time and does not want to get victimized to stress, mental fatigue, procrastination, and brain fog.

So, if you need your competitive edge, ultra brain from giver nutrition is an essential brain supplement that you should get right away. It is important that we realize, our mental health is just as vital as physical health.
What music does to your brain: How it effects our mind
By: Akhin Abraham
Tags: Health, Emotions, Brain, Music, Mental Health

It has been found that music brings changes to almost every part known in human brain. Many experiments conducted in different machines and by observing many musicians of various ages, the following was recorded.

Observing the brain of children who play music, it was found that their left hemisphere and right hemisphere are more strongly connected as compared to the rest. Their brain also showed better response in their multitasking areas and more. In addiction to this, it has also benefited them in decision making skills. This makes them a more creative problem solvers.

In an experiment conduced where a person indicates when the feeling “chills” occured to him while listening to music concluded that some people’s brain’s are more connected between what they hear and how they feel.

Music can alter moods, it can motivate you to work hard.

Believe it or not, music is proved to trigger the brains opiod system. This does not only make you feel good but can also reduce pain. Music can also release cortisol, which is a stress hormone, when you listen to music you do not like.

When a person is sad, they listen to sad music rather than happy music. This is because when they are sad or depressed, they have a feeling in which they believe that no one can understand them or how they feel. Listening to happy music in a sad state will only contribute more to this misbelief. When you listen to the perfect sad music, you will feel that the artist is able to feel and understand you.

Listening to music also help us boost productivity. Listening to music while working out gives you additional energy before you get tired. This helps you use your energy efficiently.

Researchers also observed children who play music from 3 or more years have more capability in vocabulary and other non-verbal reasoning skills like understanding various patterns.
George Pegios Hypnosis
By: George Pegios
Tags: Drgeorgepegios, Georgepegios, Brain, Hypnosis, NLP

Now that you understand the benefits of hypnosis, you must ask yourself how long it takes for it to work for you. It puts your subconscious mind at the center while your consciousness recedes into the background.

George Pegios When you use it, you are working on changing your unconscious thoughts, but it will also depend on how often you do it and how deep you go. How long it takes depends on the type of hypnosis, the number of sessions and the degree of deep relaxation for which it is intended.

Dr. George Pegios Neurologistic Programming

Genuine hypnosis and hypnotherapy does not involve swinging a pocket watch and is not practised on stage as part of an entertainment act. To answer the question: “How does it work for me? “: Hypnosis is really” self-hypnosis, “and what it does is merely strengthen the positive beliefs, attitudes and resources a person has to help them achieve their goals.

Hypnotists can make you do something you don’t really want to do, but in reality you do it because you have to.

The way hypnosis is portrayed in the media may seem like it is just for fun, but there is more to it than the entertainment factor. There are many misconceptions about hypnosis because it is portrayed in movies and unfairly portrayed by Hollywood and television.

George Pegios Another misconception that some people have about what happens during hypnosis and how it is is that it has been unfairly portrayed by Hollywood or television. Research has found that thyroid hypnosis does not significantly improve or accurately improve memory and can actually lead to false or distorted memories.

George Pegios NLP

This study provides a compelling new detail regarding the neural capacity of hypnosis. Hypnosis modulates brain regions associated with focused attention, such as the prefrontal cortex, frontal cortex and peninsula.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation online about what hypnosis is, how it works and what it can and can’t do. Although there are certain effects of hypnosis, this is only part of a much larger picture of the brain’s neural capacity. If you are aware of what can be achieved through hypnosis, then it could be a powerful way to make long-lasting changes in your life.

The mission of the AbsolutePeak Hypnosis Center is to educate the public about how hypnosis works and to enable so many people to experience this wonderful method of human transformation.

Dr. George Pegios Clinical Hypnosis

George Pegios If you are interested in hypnotherapy, it is important to look for a professional with a background in this field and an understanding of its effects on the brain and the human body.

You can only really start your hypnosis journey if you know what it contains and what you can contribute to. But before you try it, you need to know all the facts about it so that we can make an informed decision for you.