Questions pertaining to the brain: an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
Questions tagged [brain]
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Can thinking too much lead to brain damage?
I would like to become a mathematician, but am scared by the fact that for instance, Leonhard Euler developed what seems to be called a "cerebral hemorrhage", and he was perhaps the most prolific thinker of mathematics. Now I would like to know: If…
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How often does the organic material of the brain change?
I read the following in Simon Blackburn's Think (1999), page 121:
The organic material of my body (except my brain) changes roughly every seven years.
It seems strange that the brain is excluded. I wonder if that is true.
I am not sure where to…
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What is the disorder when a bodily process/function that is usually automatically controlled by the brain suddenly has to be consciously controlled?
I read an article some time back about an opera singer who suddenly had to retire. When she sang, her throat would "open" and "close" automatically, but one day the process suddenly was no longer unconsciously controlled by the brain, so she had to…
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Does applying pressure on both sides of your head damage brain cells?
Someone squeezed my head with her hands. I am concerned whether it has caused any damage like loss of brain cells.
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What supplements/diet/activities can I do to improve mental function?
I am currently going through a web development bootcamp. I want to stress the word bootcamp here, a bootcamp on my brain. I know sleep deprivation is taking its toll on my mental capacities so far but I was wondering about any specific diets/diet…
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Why cant one feel inner body parts?
If we pour hot or cold water on skin then we feel it immediately. We respond to a small injection also.
But our body parts are doing a lot of work, for example, our lungs do inhale and exhale, our heart does beating, intestines does processing food,…
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