Monday, July 03, 2017 8:23:53 PM
What the brain's wiring looks like
Fergus Walsh Medical correspondent
3 hours ago
VIDEO:The wiring of the human brain
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INSERT: 4 embeds
Documentaries Power of Human Brain Documentary 2017
What The Bleep Do We Know--Addiction Clip
How to Rewire & Evolve Your Brain to Experience a New Reality - Dr. Joe Dispenza
.. 5:16 '... pay attention to compassion ... the frontal lobes lit up ... then the control group, pay attention to one thing, lol, of course, my back hurts, grumble grumble ... am i doing it right? ... frontal lobe? blah! ... nothing .. in one particular monk the happy spot lit up!!! ... must be the happiest guy in the world! ... then the scientists began thinking about this ... maybe paying attention and concentration in observation is a skill ... and you can improve it if you keep practicing it ... think about it, the brain is the instrument that we use ... and it has some automatic processes which keep us going ... the central clearing house of intelligence ... mind, is what the brain does ... the brain at work ... when we can measure a working brain we are studying mind ... if the brain is the instrument for intelligence, or processing thought, and mind is what the brain does, if you can improve the way your brain works who is doing the improving? ... 13 letter word called consciousness ... the only solution ... our self aware, free-willed individual that is really not the body .. not the brain and not the mind ... consciousness manipulates the brain to produce mind ...' .. so if you want to be thinking negatively about everything then feel free, but (to the banned conservative guy who keeps pmming me) .. don't put it onto me .. just a few notes with that last tiny personal touch .. lolol .. to now 8:24 .. damn, is amazing how much can be fitted into so little time, eh .. it's fun though .. hope you ALL enjoy the videos!!! .. sheesh, 75 years and still trying .. haha .. one thing is clear, sad to say, Trump and his ilk gave up on consciousness a long time ago .. that appears to be 100% true.. :)
Joe Dispenza why it is so hard to change VF001_Q002.wmv Question and answers
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The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal wiring has been produced by scientists at Cardiff University.
The MRI machine reveals the fibres which carry all the brain's thought processes.
It's been done in Cardiff, Nottingham, Cambridge and Stockport, as well as London England and London Ontario.
Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range of neurological disorders and could be used instead of invasive biopsies.
I volunteered for the project - not the first time my brain has been scanned.
Computer games
In 2006, it was a particular honour to be scanned by the late Sir Peter Mansfield, who shared a Nobel prize for his work on developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging, one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine.
He scanned me using Nottingham University's powerful new 7 Tesla scanner. When we looked at the crisp, high resolution images, he told me: "I'm a physicist, so don't ask me to tell you to whether there's anything amiss with your brain - you'd need a neurologist for that."
I was the first UK Biobank volunteer to have their brain and other organs imaged as part of the world's biggest scanning project.
More recently, I had my brain scanned while playing computer games, as part of research into the effects of sleep deprivation on cognition.
So my visit to the Cardiff University's Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) held no particular concerns.
Doctors hope the scans will increase understanding of neurological disorders
The scan took around 45 minutes and seemed unremarkable.
A neurologist was on hand to reassure me my brain looked normal.
My family quipped that they were happy that a brain had been found inside my thick skull.
But nothing could have prepared me for the spectacular images produced by the team at Cardiff, along with engineers from Siemens in Germany and the United States.
The scan shows fibres in my white matter called axons. These are the brain's wiring, which carry billions of electrical signals.
Axonal density
Not only does the scan show the direction of the messaging, but also the density of the brain's wiring.
Another volunteer to be scanned was Sian Rowlands who has multiple sclerosis.
Like me, she is used to seeing images of her brain, but found the new scan "amazing".
Conventional scans clearly show lesions - areas of damage - in the brain of MS patients.
But this advanced scan, showing axonal density, can help explain how the lesions affect motor and cognitive pathways - which can trigger Sian's movement problems and extreme fatigue.
The scanner is one of only three in the world
The scan shows fibres in the brain's white matter, called axons
Prof Derek Jones, CUBRIC's director, said it was like getting hold of the Hubble telescope when you've been using binoculars.
"The promise for researchers is that we can start to look at structure and function together for the first time," he said.
The extraordinary images produced in Cardiff are the result of a special MRI scanner - one of only three in the world.
The scanner itself is not especially powerful, but its ability to vary its magnetic field rapidly with position means the scientists can map the wires - the axons - so thinly it would take 50 of them to match the thickness of a human hair.
The scanner is being used for research into many neurological conditions including MS, schizophrenia, dementia and epilepsy.
My thanks to Sian, Derek and all the team at CUBRIC.
Follow Fergus on Twitter .. https://twitter.com/BBCFergusWalsh .
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40488545
See also:
Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132700064
Fergus Walsh Medical correspondent
3 hours ago
VIDEO:The wiring of the human brain
--
INSERT: 4 embeds
Documentaries Power of Human Brain Documentary 2017
What The Bleep Do We Know--Addiction Clip
How to Rewire & Evolve Your Brain to Experience a New Reality - Dr. Joe Dispenza
.. 5:16 '... pay attention to compassion ... the frontal lobes lit up ... then the control group, pay attention to one thing, lol, of course, my back hurts, grumble grumble ... am i doing it right? ... frontal lobe? blah! ... nothing .. in one particular monk the happy spot lit up!!! ... must be the happiest guy in the world! ... then the scientists began thinking about this ... maybe paying attention and concentration in observation is a skill ... and you can improve it if you keep practicing it ... think about it, the brain is the instrument that we use ... and it has some automatic processes which keep us going ... the central clearing house of intelligence ... mind, is what the brain does ... the brain at work ... when we can measure a working brain we are studying mind ... if the brain is the instrument for intelligence, or processing thought, and mind is what the brain does, if you can improve the way your brain works who is doing the improving? ... 13 letter word called consciousness ... the only solution ... our self aware, free-willed individual that is really not the body .. not the brain and not the mind ... consciousness manipulates the brain to produce mind ...' .. so if you want to be thinking negatively about everything then feel free, but (to the banned conservative guy who keeps pmming me) .. don't put it onto me .. just a few notes with that last tiny personal touch .. lolol .. to now 8:24 .. damn, is amazing how much can be fitted into so little time, eh .. it's fun though .. hope you ALL enjoy the videos!!! .. sheesh, 75 years and still trying .. haha .. one thing is clear, sad to say, Trump and his ilk gave up on consciousness a long time ago .. that appears to be 100% true.. :)
Joe Dispenza why it is so hard to change VF001_Q002.wmv Question and answers
--
The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal wiring has been produced by scientists at Cardiff University.
The MRI machine reveals the fibres which carry all the brain's thought processes.
It's been done in Cardiff, Nottingham, Cambridge and Stockport, as well as London England and London Ontario.
Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range of neurological disorders and could be used instead of invasive biopsies.
I volunteered for the project - not the first time my brain has been scanned.
Computer games
In 2006, it was a particular honour to be scanned by the late Sir Peter Mansfield, who shared a Nobel prize for his work on developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging, one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine.
He scanned me using Nottingham University's powerful new 7 Tesla scanner. When we looked at the crisp, high resolution images, he told me: "I'm a physicist, so don't ask me to tell you to whether there's anything amiss with your brain - you'd need a neurologist for that."
I was the first UK Biobank volunteer to have their brain and other organs imaged as part of the world's biggest scanning project.
More recently, I had my brain scanned while playing computer games, as part of research into the effects of sleep deprivation on cognition.
So my visit to the Cardiff University's Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) held no particular concerns.
Doctors hope the scans will increase understanding of neurological disorders
The scan took around 45 minutes and seemed unremarkable.
A neurologist was on hand to reassure me my brain looked normal.
My family quipped that they were happy that a brain had been found inside my thick skull.
But nothing could have prepared me for the spectacular images produced by the team at Cardiff, along with engineers from Siemens in Germany and the United States.
The scan shows fibres in my white matter called axons. These are the brain's wiring, which carry billions of electrical signals.
Axonal density
Not only does the scan show the direction of the messaging, but also the density of the brain's wiring.
Another volunteer to be scanned was Sian Rowlands who has multiple sclerosis.
Like me, she is used to seeing images of her brain, but found the new scan "amazing".
Conventional scans clearly show lesions - areas of damage - in the brain of MS patients.
But this advanced scan, showing axonal density, can help explain how the lesions affect motor and cognitive pathways - which can trigger Sian's movement problems and extreme fatigue.
The scanner is one of only three in the world
The scan shows fibres in the brain's white matter, called axons
Prof Derek Jones, CUBRIC's director, said it was like getting hold of the Hubble telescope when you've been using binoculars.
"The promise for researchers is that we can start to look at structure and function together for the first time," he said.
The extraordinary images produced in Cardiff are the result of a special MRI scanner - one of only three in the world.
The scanner itself is not especially powerful, but its ability to vary its magnetic field rapidly with position means the scientists can map the wires - the axons - so thinly it would take 50 of them to match the thickness of a human hair.
The scanner is being used for research into many neurological conditions including MS, schizophrenia, dementia and epilepsy.
My thanks to Sian, Derek and all the team at CUBRIC.
Follow Fergus on Twitter .. https://twitter.com/BBCFergusWalsh .
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40488545
See also:
Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132700064
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