Do we really use 10% of our Brain?

We only use 10% of our brains. So that's not true. The bigger the brain, the bigger the organism doesn't matter. You can't prevent a stroke, no, that's not true.

The larger the brain, the larger the organism's size is not as important as the brain, because there are creatures with larger brains than ours, but perhaps not as complex. Your brain is determined by your body proportions, so when you think about a brown bear that's bigger than us, its brain gets bigger, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is smarter than us.

We don't know for sure because it hasn't been fully studied but we have found that in cases like chimpanzees, they have smaller brains but we do know for a fact that chimps are probably just as intelligent as they are. What matters is not the size of the brain, but perhaps its complexity and the degree of development of certain areas in humans. For example, our language centers are simply much more developed than that of a cow or even a chimpanzee. It is more important to determine intelligence than height and also how to measure intelligence, which also becomes difficult because not everyone is equally intelligent.

Non-cognitive factors also play a role, such as what is your social intelligence, what is your emotional intelligence, I think all of that is very complex and difficult to measure. IQ tests are always an accurate measure of intelligence. It's wrong. There's a lot that goes into intelligence. Common intelligence tests can measure things like executive function or verbal planning skills and reading skills, but these are only estimates of what you can and will be affected by.

It would be nice to say that there is a test or a way to determine how intelligent someone is, but there is so much to intelligence that a test or even multiple tests difference cannot be measured. It's okay so the popular IQ test was developed in the early 1900s and it was a way to determine which French students had cognitive delays. So we were able to give them better resources that were used in the US at Stanford

So I think even though it's okay to say: hey, I'm smart, I did well on the IQ test! Don't think that means too much. None of us are born doctors, we have to learn and develop these skills through years of training. I think education is the best way to do it. Education in a very general way is not necessarily a school for everyone. Certainly, some are scholars, some are wonders. It's hard to say what determines that they may be better at some things but not necessarily good at others. We are all individuals, we all have different talents and different abilities for different things, so IQ tests simply measure your intelligence in a specific area, not your overall intelligence.

We only use 10% of our brain, so that's not true, we use our entire brain, not all the time, but most of the time we use a percentage of our brain. certain hundred brains. I think this myth came true in the early 1800s when people were trying to figure out why damaging different parts of the brain caused disability in humans. So a group of psychologists hypothesized that we only use about 10% of our brains compared to smarter people who use more now, we just know that not so. We know that because we have what is called a pet MRI study and a functional MRI study, we have a frontal lobe that we use for a variety of purposes motor function functional language function the ability to run the planning or operating function. Behind that is our parietal lobe, which is our sensory cortex. At the back of the brain, we have the occipital lobe which is our visual processing center, then on this side, we have the temporal lobe involved in memory and language understanding on the left side. So to give you an example, if you were reading something, you would use your temporal lobe to understand, you would use your frontal lobe to understand, and you would also use the latter part of your head, where your visual cortex sits. Because that's where the information from your eyeball moves and your body interprets that way and then, if we take the brain apart a little bit, we have the brain stem here, which is their kind of brain. We lizards are our primitive brains that control things like excitability, breathing rate, heart rate, and blood pressure. We have deep motor functions here in the brain as well as another part of the brain that we have the lower cerebellum type which is also involved in motor control and motor planning.

While doing a task, you may be using many parts of your brain, but you are not using everything at once. Video games are rotting the brain. So it's a myth that video games themselves don't damage your brain. That's something I've certainly heard a lot as a child from my grandmother and mother, much of our literature has shown that video games, especially those that focus on team building, puzzle solving, puzzle solving, and strategy building are pretty good for you. They build these centers in your brain, especially when you're young. You know, the game can be used for other purposes, such as our colleagues in the operating room when they go to the bathroom, they practice those skills with things like simulators video games. Looking at the tests, no one has defined what too much of a video game is. All of the literature studies I've reviewed cite 12 to 90 hours per week to be accurate. I feel like 90 hours might be a bit too much, but I think in fact, the biggest sign of someone withdrawing from social activities and just wanting to stay home and play video games and they would rather do that. than doing other more important things. red flag. I always say things in moderation because it affects your social life if you just stare at the TV all day it's not good psychologically, memory will get worse with age, so it's wrong to have some kind of memory that improves as you get older, for example, things like semantic memory, reading your vocabulary, procedural memory. For example, people who are very proficient with musical instruments, such as the piano, will often retain those skills. Some people will notice that variable memory often resembles partial memory, which is a type of memory of recent events. Where and when I left my keys, where did I park the car, things like that tend to drop and I think a lot of that is because we don't focus on things. It doesn't have to be pathology or a sign of dementia. Not everyone gets dementia, but the risk increases with age. Right now, we don't have any drugs or treatments that can prevent someone from getting Alzheimer's. There are several environmental risk factors that, if you take care of them, can prevent you from developing dementia or at least prevent your memory from getting worse. Some of these just include general health, eating healthy foods, taking care of your heart, and getting moderate exercise to make sure you have good heart health, which will also help your brain.

Left-brained people are logical and right-brained people are creative. I think this myth dates back to the 1800s when neuroscientists were trying to understand the different functions of the brain, they discovered that our left hemisphere and most people dominate the brain. language and verbal memory while the right hemisphere is more spatially visual. function. But there was no structural difference in the brains of the more logical or creative people, rather it was their environment and how they were neurologically raised. When we talk about the dominance of the cerebral hemispheres, we are usually talking about the dominance of verbal and linguistic memory. Where does it live for most people, it is located in the left hemisphere of the brain. So if you're right-handed about 90 times, then your left hemisphere will be dominant, which means a lot of your memory, your expression, and your ability to understand, those things will decrease. sit on the left side of your brain. while if you are left-handed it can go either way. So I think the fact that we say someone is left-brained or right-brained is dominant and that doesn't mean that one is more creative and the other more logical, it's not that kind of talent and skill. abilities that people develop whether intrinsically or through their personality. But it has nothing to do with which side of the brain they use the most, you can't prevent a stroke, no, that's not true, that's not true you can certainly prevent a stroke. stroke prevention. The way to do that is to address all the factors that can lead to a stroke, we know very well that things like high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, and high cholesterol. Unfortunately, it increases the risk of stroke, which is when there are signs of blood flowing to the brain from a blood clot or bleeding in the brain, there is no quick and easy fix, that is to maintain heart health. your pulse and brain over time, so you never put yourself in a situation. A stroke will happen if you already have symptoms of a stroke and we often tell people this quick mnemonic If weak hands let go and have speech or language problems then it's time to call 9-1-1 and go to the hospital. distant. Emergency doctors can give you anti-stroke medication to break up the blood clot that caused the stroke, so there are things we can do to fix it and prevent it from getting worse. I think there is a misconception that stroke is a disease of the elderly. We know it's not true, anyone of any age can have a stroke, the reason why you have a stroke is different if you are older than if you are younger, but the main cause of stroke in young people are bleeding brain. If you have a family history of aneurysms, you should get tested. I think it's really good to eat fish to make you smarter so I don't know where this comes from but maybe it's like

So I think maybe that`s why this one came into place but I don't think it makes you smarter what do you think yeah no I think it was my parents' way of getting more efficient you do have to be careful about eating too much fish we know that certain types of fish have more mercury than others like tuna you don't want to overdo it I should add that fish is part of a Mediterranean diet which we advocate for all of our patients. Mediterranean diets are diets that are rich in good fats like fish for example.

Olive oils vegetables healthy grains and that is going to be helpful for stroke prevention it's going to be good for cholesterol for hypertension for diabetes all kinds of stuff so fish as part of a healthy diet is good for you but it will not make you smarter you can always trust your senses. I'd say that's a myth our senses can play tricks on us and cause things like illusions or even sometimes hallucinations. For example people with schizophrenia might hear voices of people talking that aren't actually there. Our senses are not 100% objective they're dependent on how well our brains and you know eyes ears are functioning at that time. Everyone is different. My pain tolerance might be lower than rats or vice versa. I don't think we have a really good neurological way of explaining why that might be that's still something that we don't fully understand also your senses can be a little influenced by emotions and memories. I think if you see something that reminds you of someone the way you're going to react to it might be a little different. I don't know if what I'm seeing is the same thing that everyone else is seeing. Like how can we ever it's like when they had that blue dress and the black dress and people were saying different things different sexes have different brains. So no that's not true and I'm going to rip it again because that was funny i should start with saying that we're all born with the same brain regardless of what your gender identity is regardless of what your sexual orientation is there's really no structural differences. So if a neurosurgeon was looking at two different brains they wouldn't know who was assigned male at birth and who was assigned female at birth there have been studies out there that have shown that those have been assigned female at birth might have more robust emotional pathways versus those who've been assigned male at birth are more executive thinkers. We now know that that's not true.

As you get older if you've been exposed to different things. How you relate to the outside world that's what develops the structures of your brain and the connectivity it has really nothing to do with what gender you were assigned at birth it's more nurture it's not necessarily nature and how you're made. If you have a seizure you have epilepsy. No i'm going to rip this a few times because i want to make my point what a seizure is.

hypersynchronation of brain cells, so what is that your brain talks to itself using electricity if something goes wrong with electricity in your brain you have a seizure. Basically when all of your neurons freak out and fire at once your body hyper synchronizes and we have a seizure. Seizures can be due to a lot of things not necessarily epilepsy which is a lifelong neurological condition. You have to have multiple unprovoked seizures and that's the difference between a seizure and epilepsy also if you have epilepsy you have to take daily medication to keep your brain from having seizures. So if you have had your first seizure of lifetime or if you're someone with seizures there are a few things that you should do. One is definitely get checked out by a neurologist. There are tests that we can order that can be helpful for you. One of them is an EEG. We put stickers on your head look at your brain waves and see where the abnormalities are and the second one is the imaging that we have. MRIS and PET MRIS are both used. And if a diagnosis of epilepsy is made the most important thing for you to do is take your medications and lastly keep communicating with your doctor because you're not going to get to that period of seizure freedom unless you communicate with your doctor. You only get one brain. You're born with all the brain cells that you are going to have and it's up to you to take care of them. There's a grain of truth in a lot of these myths but they're just not fully accurate. Just be sure to do your research and take care of yourself.