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The Mystery Of Human Brain

There are so many mysteries of the brain. What are those?

By Jhakri TharuPublished 4 years ago 4 min read

The Mystery Of Human Brain
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We understand the types of neurons and other brain cells at the level of cells themselves. When looking at brain tissue, one can distinguish between neurons, glia, and other types of brain cells.

We know a lot about how the brain processes information, but we have no idea how consciousness produces despite centuries of philosophy and scientific research on this question. We also know that many different brain functions, such as memory, vision, and smell, are located elsewhere. But the brain is still a confused organ, precisely in matters of life and death, consciousness, sleep, and more.

Neuroscience has made tremendous progress in determining the activity of the 100 billion neurons in a single human brain, but many more mysteries remain to be solved. One theory links consciousness to the process by which the brain integrates information from different senses and binds it to its own experience. In the Perspectives article, we present a perspective on metastable theories of consciousness, including the physiology of the brain and body, which are necessary to clarify this seemingly simple question.

Your brain absorbs different inputs from different senses and binds them together into a conscious experience. The traditional view of perception is that information from the outside world flows into the senses and works its way through the brain to make it something to see, hear and feel. Neuroscientists believe that consciousness emerges from the material material material in the brain, and that small changes in the brain - for example, through medication or disease - already alter the subjective experience.

The LUSI method does not directly model the human brain or its activity but aims to analyze more deeply the biological components that make up the brain using more advanced technologies. Many consciousness researchers underestimate the depth of the challenge and think that we need to continue to investigate how physical structures of the brain function and how they generate consciousness. In the short term, scientists are working to identify areas of the brain that correlate with consciousness.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, it was established that the human brain contains nerve cells (8.6 billion according to the latest count) which are connected by electrical action potentials and chemical transmission (synapses). Levi and his colleagues have developed molecular tools to isolate and track disease-induced cells. These techniques have enabled researchers to map brain tissue at the level of its individual connections (synapses).

Neurons, or brain cells, were discovered in the 1830s, but the method by which they send signals was not apparent until the twentieth century when the science of synaptic transmission took shape and the role of neurotransmitters became clear. Your brain is made up of 100 billion neurons that send electrical and chemical signals to themselves and receive input from receptors of different kinds that are located throughout the body, such as receptors in the eyes, ears, and skin. Charles Darwin argued in his book The Elements of Eletro-Biology in 1849 that the brain consists of hundreds of thousands of tiny batteries connected to various body parts.

The brain consists of billions of excitable nerve cells, called neurons. We, humans, have about 86 billion neurons in our brains that make an estimated 100 trillion connections (synapses). The brain is a complex organ consisting of about 100 billion cells (so-called neurons) that are connected to about 10,000 others and produce tens of billions of nerve connections.

It developed a mini-brain from stem cells from the human body in the laboratory. Researchers at the Allen Institute of Brain Science use multiple traits to define brain cell types. We know that the brain consists of 100 billion neuronal cells called neurons, which are connected to them by wires like a giant phone exchange.

Now comes the difficult task of piecing all this information together to define a brain cell type based on multiple traits. The most important measure is the number of neurons in the brain as a processing unit. Various human neurons are being studied at the Allen Institute to map the different types of human brain cells.

To suggest answers he gives a fascinating account of his experiences as a neurosurgeon and science observing the brains of conscious patients. The brain-body theory of the DSM offers insights into the current mysteries of the mind, which are supported by physiological research. The DSM consists of strengths for a metastable theory of consciousness and bioelectrical connections between the body and the brain that offer great insights into some of the greatest mysteries of neuroscience.

Memory theory assumes that memory storage depends on synapses, tiny connections between brain cells. In recent years, we have discovered that the brain cells regenerate like pins - which happens when you start to speak even before you know what to say. The computer comparison is convincing, but the brain does not work according to digital principles: nerve cells are not simple devices with transistors and the idea that the brain can represent the outside world in the form of a neural code is far from certain.

We can explain how the brain integrates different channels of incoming information, but we cannot explain how to see or hear another person. A patient who could not read even though his vision appeared normal could see words and process images in his visual cortex, but could not send this information to the speech areas of the left side of the brain where it could be interpreted and read. The REM brain (Rapid Eye Movement) remains active, but the NREM brain (Non-Rapid Eye Movement Brain) provides a lower level of metabolic activity.

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