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86How to use 100 percent of your Brain
It's easier than you think. You are already doing it. Contrary to the popular myth that human beings use only a small percentage of their brain, let's say 10%, the truth is all of the human brain is used at one time or another. If you came here to...
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67Anatomy of The human Brain
The human brain is the center of the human nervous system and is a highly complex organ. Enclosed in the cranium, it has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over three times as...
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74Brain Science – Part 1
In every sense of the word, the brain is a truly remarkable organ. Capable of making computations faster than even the most sophisticated computers, the average human brain contains 100 billion neurons and is more than capable of processing 10...
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81The Structure and Function of Neurons
Neurons are the highly specialised cells of the nervous system. Although they share the essential machinery common to all cells they are highly adapted to their role. Their primary function is the transfer of information both within and between...
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71Structure and Function of Neurons
A brief article on how neurons work, from their anatomy, chemistry, and the neurotransmitters in the brain.
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56Impulses of the body
For fast, effective communications, our bodies rely on what scientists have estimated as being between 10 and 100,000 million nerve cells, or neurones. Most of these are in the brain. Neurones relay...
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78Cells Of The Nervous System
Until later in the 1800s, the best microsope revealed very little about how the brain works. Only through special staining techniques could the tiny cells or neurons be seen. It was difficult to see each from the area that surrounded them. ...
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76What are Neurotransmitters
A neuron passes along information through a neurotransmitter, a chemical that is released into the synapse and transmits information from one neuron to another. After the electrical impulse passes down the length of the axon it reaches an area on...
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71Charlie Axon and the Billboard Metaphors
I had a visual metaphor of what a successful new idea looked like. I saw myself emerging from a silver flash of light in a speeding convertible as my synapses fired in a neurological pattern for a remarkable idea. Along the highway of success I...
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62What Is Multiple Sclerosis?
Multiple Sclerosis, which is also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata or disseminated sclerosis, is a terrible disease that affects the spinal cord and brain and the process of communication between them and the body. What happens is the fatty based myelin that cushions spinal cord and brain axons are damaged.
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