Category Archives: Brain

Marijuana May Boost, Rather Than Dull, the Elderly Brain

Picture the stereotypical pot smoker: young, dazed and confused. Marijuana has long been known for its psychoactive effects, which can include cognitive impairment…

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/marijuana-may-boost-rather-than-dull-the-elderly-brain/

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Your Brain Has A ‘Delete Button’ And Here’s How To Use It! – Prepare for Change

 

By: lifecoachcodeThere’s an old saying in neuroscience: “neurons that fire together wire together.”

 This means the more you run a neuro-circuit in your brain, the stronger that circuit becomes. This is why, to quote another old saw, “practice makes perfect”. The more you practice piano, or speaking a language, or juggling, the stronger those circuits get.

Scientists have known this for years. However, nowadays researchers learn another part of the truth: In order to learn something, even more important than practicing is the ability to unlearn, or to break down the old neural connections. This is called “synaptic pruning”.

THIS IS HOW IT WORKS:

Imagine your brain is a garden, except instead of growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables, you grow synaptic connections between neurons. These are the connections that neurotransmitters like dopamine, seratonin, and others travel across.

“Glial cells” are the gardeners of your brain—they act to speed up signals between certain neurons. But other glial cells are the waste removers, pulling up weeds, killing pests, raking up dead leaves. Your brain’s pruning gardeners are called “microglial cells.” They prune your synaptic connections. The question is, how do they know which ones to prune?

Researchers are just starting to unravel this mystery, but what they do know is the synaptic connections that get used less get marked by a protein, C1q (as well as others). When the microglial cells detect that mark, they bond to the protein and destroy—or prune—the synapse.

This is how your brain makes the physical space for you to build new and stronger connections so you can learn more.

THIS IS WHY SLEEP MATTERS:…

 

Source: Your Brain Has A ‘Delete Button’ And Here’s How To Use It! – Prepare for Change

3 Ways to Encourage the Hemispheres of the Brain to Work In Sync — to Unlock Your Hidden Potential | Stillness in the Storm

(Lauren Simpson-Green) “All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” ~ Leonardo Da VinciThe hemispheres of the brain could be seen to represent this dualistic reality in which we live. And their secrets? The key to unlocking the most obscure mysteries of human capabilities…

Source: 3 Ways to Encourage the Hemispheres of the Brain to Work In Sync — to Unlock Your Hidden Potential | Stillness in the Storm

Web-Based Brain Damage and Mindless Data Consumption — Effects of Multitasking | Stillness in the Storm

(Brendan D. Murphy) “Even though we think we’re getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.” ~Daniel J. Levitin, Neuroscientist .Web-Based Brain Damage Evidence is mounting that our haphazard info-consuming ways on the web are adversely affecting our neurological and cognitive functioning – as well as wasting time by making us far less efficient – and far more distracted – than we think we are. The internet is a wonderful (read: essential) thing for humanity, but the way we use it seems to need some tweaking…

Source: Web-Based Brain Damage and Mindless Data Consumption — Effects of Multitasking | Stillness in the Storm

Drink Warm Turmeric Water Every Morning for 12 Months and This Will Happen | Alternative

(Before It’s News) by Health and Love Page

You have probably heard that turmeric is one of the healthiest spices in the world, due to its incredible nutrient content and powerful anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, and antioxidant properties. Most of its healing powers come from its active compound – curcumin, and more than 7,000 studies have proven its numerous benefits to our health. So, drinking a turmeric water is one of the best things you can do for your health and body.

A woman from Bristol, England has drunk this healthy beverage for one year, so in this post, we share her story by telling you all the things she experienced during this period.

Some of the health benefits she received from drinking turmeric water in the morning for a year are alkaline pH’s levels of her body, relieved arthritis symptoms, and improved digestion.
But first, let’s explain how to make this turmeric water: add a teaspoon of ground turmeric and a pinch of black pepper in a glass of warm water. Stir well and drink while warm. Drink this beverage in the morning, and you’ll soon feel the same health benefits the woman from Bristol did. Here are some of the benefits you’ll get by drinking this beverage in the morning for 12 months:

 

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Lucid Dreamers Found To Produce The Fastest Brainwave Frequencies Ever Recorded | Stillness in the Storm

(Arjun Walia) Lucid dreaming is one category of dreams that many people experience. It occurs when the individual is dreaming and during that dream the individual is completely aware that they are dreaming. Some people report a low-level lucidity state where one is aware they are dreaming but not able to alter the content of the dream. Other people have experienced high-level lucidity where one is aware they are dreaming but are also able to alter the dream, and have the freedom to do whatever they desire within the dream…

Source: Lucid Dreamers Found To Produce The Fastest Brainwave Frequencies Ever Recorded | Stillness in the Storm

The Portal: Situation Update

Clearing of the Chimera group continues. There was a drastic improvement of the situation in our Solar System lately. The Light forces have managed to clear most of the plasma anomaly from the Solar System and beyond, and the vast majority of plasma anomaly with most remaining toplet bombs is now accumulated close to Earth within 3 Earth radii from the Earth center…

Source: The Portal: Situation Update

‘Frankenstein effect’: Dormant memories can be revived with magnetic pulse to brain, study says — Veterans Today

Those who struggle to recall even the most recent of memories could one day be able to revive them with a zap of magnetic energy to the brain, according to a new study which sheds further light on the “working memory.” The notion of working memory has to do with the part of the brain…

via ‘Frankenstein effect’: Dormant memories can be revived with magnetic pulse to brain, study says — Veterans Today

What Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You To Know About Dopamine & Serotonin Imbalances Within The Brain – True Disclosure

There are many uninformed individuals when it comes to knowing what’s happening within the modern day medical industry, and by no fault of their own. The world of medical science, unfortunately, has been plagued with scientific fraud and pharmaceutical company influence. The words ‘big pharma’ are far from a conspiracy theory, which is why so many physicians and doctors in influential positions are trying to let the world know.

For example, Dr Richard Horton, current editor-in-chief of The Lancet is one of them. He stated that half of all the published literature could be false.  Mark Mattson, the current Chief of the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging said that pharmaceutical companies can’t make money off of healthy people, which is why there is no funding for research and why there’s a lot of pressure for regular eating patterns forced upon us by the food industry. Physician and longtime Editor in Chief of the New England Medical Journal, Dr Marcia Angell, told the world that “it’s simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines.”

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