The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

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Macdonald K, Germine L, Anderson A, Christodoulou J, Mcgrath LM. Dispelling the Myth: Training in Education or Neuroscience Decreases but Does Not Eliminate Beliefs in Neuromyths. Front Psychol. 2017;8:1314. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01314

Finally, Cobb postulates that there may not in fact be any real organizing principle to brain function, because it is a messy, evolved, pragmatic and embodied system. Matthew Cobb covered each era and discovery with as little bias as he could, and clearly attempted to make each section accessible. I'm not usually much of a historian, but the sections on theology and cultural influences were just as interesting as those which directly pertained to neuroscience or psychology. Cobb explores the fact that we are almost certainly at the edge of the use value of the computer metaphor.Neurons are information messengers which use electrical and chemical impulses to transmit information around the central nervous system (CNS). The brain is a complex organ that controls all bodily processes, including thought, sensory perception, and physical action. Despite weighing only 3 pounds, the human brain contains as many as 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections. The ancients believed the heart was the anatomical seat of thought and consciousness and considered the brain to be of relative little import.

Wie weit ist dieses Hirn-Feld, was wissen wir und was wissen wir noch nicht? Auf was sollten wir in Zukunft einen Augenmerk werfen, damit wir beispielsweise Menschen mit ernsthaften Erkrankungen helfen können. The chapter feels like a summary of a ton of docs and ideas I've read before. Yet it's kinda dry. I rather read a more fun intro to this stuff. And if you watch docs on brain studies you already know most of this. The left and right sides of the brain connect via nerve fibers. In a healthy brain, the two sides communicate with one another.

The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Aghjayan, S. L., et al. (2022). Aerobic exercise improves episodic memory in late adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis.