The medical community have felt for a long while that low serotonin levels in the brain lead to depression — but there are several problems with that belief — and new research suggests neurogenesis holds a truer key to cure.
Continue reading → Do Low Serotonin Levels Really Cause Depression?
What is the best way to kill a man with the least effort on our part and that would give him the quickest, most painless, end — while saving us the most money?
If you have $200.00USD to spare, there’s a book you need to buy — “Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries” — and if you don’t have that much scratch, I’ll try to fill you in on a bit of what you’re missing.
We know immediately cooling the brain after a stroke can help preserve neurological function by reducing swelling. Making the brain chilly is also effective in saving lives and brain capabilities after heart attacks and after infant oxygen deprivation. Products like Kool-Kit are already on the market to strategically lower the temperature of important parts of the body.
Do medical television shows owe us a correct diagnosis and treatment of the ill and infirm — or does anything go as entertainment in the unwinding drama?
Are you a left-brain learner or a right-brain learner? Does it matter any longer? Should we be “whole lobe” learners — or do lateralized brains, instead of mirrored ones, better serve us?
If psychotropic drugs can’t lift a mind from depression, sometimes a harsher, more somatically direct intervention is necessary.
Why are we obsessed with playing with our brains? Is it because we understand the least about our thought processes and that unknown threatens us? Does God live in the mind? If we puncture the blood-brain barrier, have we finally captured the magic behind the red velvet rope line?
Continue reading → A Semiotic History of Playing with Brains
Why do we buy things? As the economy melts around us, many are re-evaluating their purchase decisions — but are we able to resist the impulse to buy — or is the need to gather things innately us? Researcher Martin Lindstrom spent $7 million looking into the brains of 2,000 people with an fMRI machine to help him understand our impulse to buy one brand over another.
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