Essays on Brain

With the advent of social media the variety of digital media is growing exponentially. The sole purpose of media is to introduce a sense of joy among users. Multimedia customization and recommendations depend on emotional traits of the content a user is watching. The levels...

Neural plasticity is the way in which the brain learns new behaviors and changes behaviorally and cognitively based on experience or pathology. There are 10 experience-dependent principles of neural plasticity that need to be understood in order for recovery of both the damaged and intact...

Neurons are the basic and operative units of our nervous system. They have three parts: the soma or cell body, the dendrites, and the axon. The soma is the centre of the neuron. Its shape is variable and energy for the functioning of the neuron...

Neuroplasticity is defined as the dynamic process of the brain where (by direction of the nervous system) it adapts to the requirements of the environment. The process consists of numerous neurobiological processes; comprising of physiological, metabolic, and structural mechanisms. Neuroplasticity can be further sub-grouped into...

It has been wondered that how we recognize stimulus around us. Brain imagining techniques have been used to determine neurons in which areas of the human brain respond to the faces, scenes and objects. Nancy Kanwisher and coworkers (1997) found that neurons in Fusiform Face...

In the miseries of life, many a time one goes to have to confront with definite situations where indecisiveness and confusion broads into thought process like never before and reaching towards the conclusion makes the entire gamut of situations more puzzling that ever thought of....

Here’s a question: Do you ever realize that you or people around you spend a significant portion of your time everyday trying to make yourself look attractive and interesting for other people to see? Do you ever realise that you might pay too much attention...

Being mindful of our emotions is being aware of our feelings and realizing how they impact us. Although some may believe that exercising the practice of mindfulness blurs the line between teacher and therapist, Argos Gonzalez a teacher who practices the use of mindfulness in...

In this article, “When Science Meets Mindfulness” by Alvin Powell, is about how researchers study the change in the brain in depressed patients through studies and meditation. Throughout this article, it follows Benjamin Shapero, who is an instructor in psychiatry at HMS and a psychologist...

The brain is the most powerful organ in the body. It gives us the ability to feel emotion and to critically reason, classifying mankind as the most intelligent species on the planet. We know it’s potential but it has been scientifically proven that we only...