A quick glance at the state of science about the study of the mysteries of the human brain, you understand that technology is not yet fully able to dissolve the myths of a sophisticated reader. The size of the studies does not reflect the probability of the truth about our body, which can not be said about the psyche. A relatively small organ - the brain, weighing 1.5 kg, requires complex experiments. The saddest thing is that they can only be carried out on a person. And what sane person is willing to devote himself to science for the sake of an unknown future?
The main secrets that excite scientists
The desire to study the brain is not as justified as the desire to understand the basic principles of work:
- Which prevails - upbringing, heredity or the focus of the personality formation of the psyche in the process of brain development?
- Why does brain activity increase in adolescence, decrease in old age, and give uncontrolled answers in early childhood?
- How high is the probability of remembering events from the memory of ancestors? Here we are talking about genetic memory, which stores the events of 30-50 years ago.
The main task of scientists is to establish a connection between the "gap" in thatthe moment when the twins start to think differently. They have identical initial indicators, but at some point they begin to truly recognize the world, to change. The brain is formed in the ethical concept in the same way - the same way. However, fragmentary data obtained during the study of the mysteries of the brain of twins indicate that even after being separated in childhood, in adulthood, the fate and habits of relatives are similar to the smallest detail.
Hence the assumption that from the womb the brain is formed according to established patterns - identical, similar or similar to the parent or ancestor.
Brain shutdown: countdown point
In old age, many people cease to be aware of their actions. Former performance is lost due to some factors, but what exactly affects? According to science:
- Alzheimer's disease is in most cases the main cause of mental disorder. A person forgets himself, the world around. Scientists know the exact places that the disease strikes, but they cannot prevent it. It is possible to indicate in advance the likelihood of development, predisposition, but why is it still impossible to stop cell decay?
- Injuries affecting the progression of the disease. It is clear that any blow leads to consequences. The brain is no exception. Another thing is strange: some people begin to "see" something that is hidden from the eyes of a he althy person.
After the defeat of the cells, how many percent does the brain work and why does it not immediately stop the struggle for existence? The researchers suggestthat at some point the neurons reproduce the "lost" data in order to restore the basis for the organ's performance. This leads to confusion. Therefore, they began not to separate the mind and the brain, so that the studies turned out to be more reliable.
How memories work: the brain forgets everything that happened to us
Many people say that in order to recall a specific case, you need to strain your "memory", and it will give you the necessary information. Those who suffer from amnesia can use hypnosis. In fact, a person is not given the opportunity to know everything about himself:
- Memory is erased: the short-term phase is not captured by the brain. An emotionally strong event is remembered only by sensations. Brain studies have shown that out of a whole day, an organ can reproduce what hooked a person without details of experiences that did not cause strong unrest.
- To remember a long-standing event, a person imagines that day, the brain erases the memory and overlays a new one on top of the "base" to interpret everything "fresh".
- Memory will never be an exact copy of the past. It is enough to dream up, think about how bad the person was, and the brain itself presents the most cruel information from its subconscious. Scenes from films are laid there, close in empathy and not only.
Long-term memory has not yet been fully explored. At the University of Cambridge, Frederick Bartlett conducted an experiment: he asked students to look at the image and after a fewminutes to play it. I had to repeat the drawing in a week, a month and six months. As a result, the scientist collected all the pictures and saw that the latter is different from the first, but nothing is original. The students claimed that they drew what they saw with their own eyes. Hence F. Bartlett concluded:
Memory is a reconstruction of a creative nature, an attempt to re-experience emotions at the moment of the first sensation. Old information is "rewritten", "overwritten" by new thoughts.
Suggestion sometimes helps a person to pass a lie detector test. If it is necessary to "wipe" the present, he may well use one of the mysteries of the human brain so that fantasy is mistaken for reality.
Neural bridges - realization of fiction or success in reality
A person should be grateful for such a structure of the brain to nature, because thanks to him he was able to learn new movements, achieve victories in sports. Why is the physical side involved in this issue? The fact is that neurons in the brain are special units of the nervous system that help to consolidate and reproduce information. Impulses enter the muscles, a person begins to do what he has never done before.
- Look a few times at the person's movements and remember them.
- Then think ahead about his next move, literally.
- Mentally repeat everything the other person does.
- Replay what you memorized.
They also teach longballet compositions, but no one repeats one movement 500 times for hours. Thanks to neurons, a person receives information for which a place has been prepared in advance.
The mystery of the century - why does a person dream?
The very fact of the appearance of pictures during sleep is an intriguing event. The brain rests at night in the first phase of sleep, which lasts 1-3 hours. The second phase of sleep allows him to activate the work by 100%. Then the eyeballs move faster, a person in a dream does not hear anything or anyone, it is rather difficult to wake up.
Pictures do not pop up in a random order:
- If you had a short dream, then it lasted all night. One action takes 7-17 seconds, and a whole episode of sleep - up to 7 hours.
- If you watched a whole movie in a dream, then there will definitely be chase scenes, fast walking - it is no coincidence that your brain "accelerates" the pace of events in order to have time to show the whole performance.
- Long dreams are rarely remembered, separate vivid pieces can only be described by children, even after a few days.
Sometimes a child can see colored dreams. An adult will watch a black and white movie, but in a dream he will understand that this pillar is red, and that one is green. The installation is given in advance to color the prologue on your own. This is due to a violation of the cerebellum, and in children everything is normal. It is this organ that fills objects with color, and it is almost impossible to do this in a dream with your eyes closed.
Consciousness and mind - how does the brain activate the hidden capabilities of a person?
Where the brain ends, the mind and consciousness begin - scientists at the University of London came to this conclusion in 2010. To make a decision in the head of a person there is a hearth with a ready-made model of behavior. And if someone is going to tell you the news, you should not press - everything has been prepared for a long time, they are just playing for time.
At the same time, human consciousness is divided into conscious and unconscious actions: breathing, walking, blinking. If you need to think which way to go, the brain will activate the conscious part of the mind. A familiar road does not require activity from you: you already know where to turn. Scientists call this automatism - driving a car, cooking, dressing. Everything is brought to automatic actions so that the brain does not bother itself every time. In cases where a well-executed action fails, the conscious section of the nerve endings is activated. And how many neurons in the brain are responsible for a particular action? See how the organ structures interact.
Below is a list of the main "helpers" responsible for our activity and conscious life.
Neural products: how do the strings of nerves dictate our lives?
The most intricate mysteries of the brain are easy to understand if you know a little about them: every kind of neuron produces cells that we call hormones.
- Serotonin - makes us happy, "in the mood".
- Dopamine deliverspleasure, or rather, we get pleasure from something.
- Glutamate is the stimulant of feelings that come when you remember something.
- Acetylcholine is produced by the cholinergic neuron.
- Osquitocin helps us to love.
The last hormone is produced artificially too - it is injected into parturient women on the first day after childbirth to increase blood clotting. Some believe that the hormone causes the mother to have stronger feelings, and the maternal instinct activates the production of serotonin faster. What percentage of the brain works with this combination of neurons?
Scientists have found that mothers become "robots" that can hardly sleep, work hard, and neurons help to learn how to care for a newborn faster. Hence the conclusion that dad is not mom, and it is impossible to replace her.
Unsolved secrets we'll never know
The most interesting fact about the brain is aging. Scientists suggest two options why the human brain dies after the pulse stops and before physical death:
- Aging and death are part of human genetics.
- Aging has no purpose, it is not genetic, but is the result of cellular aging.
Eternal life is possible, but the mysteries of the brain are so hard to explain scientifically that it seems we will never know the purpose of our existence.
