It’s very strange – because you seem to get intoxication everywhere. It’s one of the few truly universal aspects of human activity, that we seem to enjoy finding things that alter our... Читать далее
Well yes, food itself does, because you need nutrition for your brain to function properly! “Eat food, mostly plants” as the saying goes – that’s the long and the short of it. Anything... Читать далее
We used to think this was not possible. When I was an undergraduate we were taught that you were born with all your braincells, and that if you damage a braincell then that’s it. We now... Читать далее
Well, no. We do use pretty much all our brain all the time. If you use a brain imaging paradigm like positron emission tomography, where you track blood flow throughout the brain, you see... Читать далее
This is accurate in as much as you do have different functions in your left and your right brain.
For most people, speech perception, language, listening to other people taking and... Читать далее
It would probably be quicker to answer with what we DO know about the way the brain works, because it’s just fewer things. But there’s a few key things that are real unexplored territory.... Читать далее
Our perception of time is influenced by a lot of different things. Time is rigorously linear in the real, external world, but your experience of time varies continuously, moment to... Читать далее
The simple answer would be no. But in another sense the answer is yes, because we’re pretty certain it’s in the brain. But within that, what we can say is that, in terms of brain systems... Читать далее
As far as we can tell, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is not actually on the rise. But a very important thing you need to understand with a psychiatric label like OCD is that there’s... Читать далее
The main thing to understand is that cannabis is an unbelievably complex drug. It's got something like 545 chemical compounds, of which 104 are cannabinoids. And pretty much all of those... Читать далее