Sunday Science

The Brain is an amazing thing. Every SECOND, there are more than 100,000 chemical reactions that take place inside the human brain. New research projects are working towards further examining of all of the great number of neural pathways with in the brain –how they work, how they work together, what they do, and what they are capable of.

In this research, scientists have begun to open to door to direct brain to brain communication. Studies have even be able to control subject’s brains remotely, by stimulating brain impulses in another subject and communicate information directly between subjects.

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School explain, the team was able to do so by “Using a combination of internet-connected electroencephalogram and robot-assisted, image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (which, as the name suggests, uses electromagnetic induction to stimulate the brain from the outside), the team was able to communicate words from one human to another.”

                    To read more about these studies click HERE! Happy Sunday.

 

Sources: Starr, Michelle. "Brain-to-brain Verbal Communication in Humans Achieved for the First Time - CNET." CNET. 1 Sept. 2014. Web. 28 June 2015

Defining the Patient Experience

Midweek Motivation

Because, in the words of Bill Nye the Science Guy;

"Everyone you ever meet knows something that you don't"

 

A mind that remains thirsty for knowledge- is never full, and yet it is never empty. It never focuses on what it does not know, nor does it depend on being all knowing.

It requires the ability to be open & vulnerable;  and accept weakness, accept help when it is needed, and similarly to offer it.

 

To conclude todays post, I'll quote the most interesting man in the world;

"Stay thirsty my friends"