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A second brain in the heart? Illustration: J.Kando72

Your Second Brain is in your Heart

A second brain in the heart is now much more than a hypothesis. Heart transplanted Memories is the discovery by prominent medical experts that recipients of heart transplants are reporting huge changes in...

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Monkeys Have Compassion Too

Imagine an experiment where you have some monkeys in a cage. There are two chains. Chain A will provide a large quantity of food for the monkeys. Chain B will provide a small quantity of food. Next the...

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Neural Processing

A Simple Neural Network Neural ProcessingHow do you recognize a face in a crowd? How does an economist predict the direction of interest rates? Faced with problems like these, the human brain uses a web of...

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Ten weird facts about your BRAIN.

The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy. There may be a lot I don’t know, but here are a few interesting facts that I’ve got covered. 1. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. 2. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10watt light bulb. 3. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica 4. Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. 5. The b

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What do we know about autism?

Autism falls in the diagnostic category of pervasive developmental disorders. The other disorders in this category include Rett's disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Aspergers and Pervasive...

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Understanding depression and anxiety

Here is a general overview of the physiological process of depression/axiety.

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Basic information about the Nervous System

The nervous system is the coordinating body apparatus between the receptors and effect. It dictates what to do. It is like the general or an army who directs what should be done under the circumstances. ...

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Basic information about Elementary Nervous System

The primary purpose of the Nervous System is to conduct impulses between receptors and effectors and that such condition is carried on via sensory, motor and connecting fibers.  The simplest example of this...

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TO GAMBLE OR NOT TO GAMBLE....WITH LIFE

. I do not go to the Casino, neither gamble...but while living my own life and watching the common behaviour of myself and the others, it often seems to me as act of gambling. . Casino is not only...

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Burn Fat Using Your Brain

There are many ways to lose fat, and I am sure you know of a good few. But how about use your brain to lose fat. Have I got you thinking? Don't worry I am not saying you need to use your brain because I...

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