Mysteries of the mind do you ever wonder about how it works? How can we remember specific details from years ago but then forget
Do you ever wonder about the mysteries of the mind? How can we remember specific details from years ago but then forget what we were saying a moment ago?
The human mind is a curious thing, and it’s full of hidden mysteries waiting to be explored.
What do you think about when you’re not thinking about anything in particular? Do your thoughts ever take you on a journey to someplace strange and interesting?
Why can some people stay calm under pressure while others feel like they’re about to have a panic attack? There’s so much that we still don’t understand how our brains work.
My Brain Injury
My life changed when I passed out and hit my head on the floor in 2008. At first, I didn’t realize that something was wrong.
It wasn’t until two years, in 2010 later, that the symptoms began to surface, and I was diagnosed with – a traumatic brain injury caused by falling on my head during an episode of blacking out (fatally).
Since then, life has been different for me; nothing feels quite right anymore— I don’t feel like myself anymore…I developed a Jamaica accent and most other things about myself, like handwriting and speech patterns – basically, everything changed such as…
- Personality changes
- The processing and understanding of information changed. Simple things no longer made sense.
- I suffered from social anxiety, irritability, anger, depression, feelings of overwhelm, general anxiety, mood swings, or emotional lability (teariness).
- Stress seizures (my brain shuts me down if I become overly stressed.
- Most of the time, I feel like a different person.
- It is now 2022-very little has changed. So, I take it and deal with it.
Scientists are making progress every day, and they are learning more and more about the amazing things our minds are capable of.
Allen Institute for Brain Science
If you ask Christof Koch, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, how close we are to understanding our brains.
“We don’t even understand the brain of a worm,” Koch said.
The lab roundworm, more technically known as Caenorhabditis elegans, houses 302 neurons and 7,000 connections between those neurons in its tiny body.
Researchers have painstakingly mapped and described all those connections in recent years.
And we still don’t fully understand how they all work synergistically to give rise to the worm’s behaviors.
Humans have approximately 86 billion neurons in our brains, woven together by an estimated 100 trillion connections or synapses.
It’s a daunting task to understand how those cells work, let alone how they come together to make up our sensory systems, behavior, and consciousness.
What is the brain made of?
The brain consists mostly of gray matter and white matter, brain tissue and its interconnections or bundles of axons.
Look more closely at the former, and one can distinguish neurons and glia (the other kind of brain cell). But we’re far from understanding all the types of neurons and other brain cells at the level of what they do.
What will it mean to understand our brains?
When we think about understanding something, we often think about being able to explain it in a relatively simple way.
In science, researchers in other fields look to physics as a model of understanding, said Koch, a former physicist.
The physical world lends itself to abstractions that can be boiled down to (relatively) simple equations.
But what if biology doesn’t? The more Koch and others at the Allen Institute study the brain at a large-scale, looking at many or most cells in the brain rather than just a few, the more they realize that even the parts of neuroscience they thought the field had nailed down are more complicated than anyone had realized.
Conclusion:
So, there you have it. . A human mind is a fascinating place, and there are still plenty of mysteries waiting to be explored.
Let me know what you think.
https://www.brainline.org/article/tbi-101-behavioral-emotional-symptoms
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142353/
