The brain is astonishing and complex to understand. But our lack of comprehending has resulted to a considerable variety of myths from ages. So I am going to share some myths that our brains believe they are facts.
Like "bigger is better"
Now, just compare a sperm whale brain to a human brain, which is almost 6 times bigger. By this yes, they are obviously intelligent animals. However, their cognitive skills pale when compared to our brains.
“Alcohol kills the entire brain cells “
Yeah it is a myth. Eventhough it does devastate and generate problems such as transporting messages between neurons, the damage can be treated. But it doesn’t mean overconsumption never harms, it does damage many parts of our body. Likewise, drugs do not basically create holes in your brain. Although, some drugs can forever transform functionally, physical trauma is the only thing that is capable of putting a hole in your brain.
“We have 100 billion brain cells””
Unfortunately, it was just a belief until 2009. Researchers discovered that the fact is something closer to 86 billion. So you probably think it is a small number some 14 billion neurons difference. But it is almost equivalent to the entire size of baboon’s brain.
“We use only 10% of our brain”
Although we know that they meant capability of brain, I just want to share it with you. Modern scientists made some brain scanning technology that tells us that we use the entire brain, yet not necessarily all at once. For instance, when we walk, some parts of brain that are responsible with the movement are more active than other parts. Nevertheless, there is no area of the brain that simply does not work.
“ We use one side more than the other”
We have been believing that if you are more logical, then you may use left side of the brain. On the other hand if you are more creative you may use right side of the brain. But it is not a fact. We certainly use different sides of the brain for specific functions. For instance, emotions are linked with the right side while language uses the left side. There is no dominance between left and right as studies on thousands of people figured out there no evidence. Therefore, we use both sides equally.
“ We have only 5 senses”
We are told from our childhood that we have only 5 senses which may be a myth. In fact we have many untold senses. Such as ! nociception , a sense of pain, and many for passing time, temperature, balancing.
Source: "Articles of GE's Global Research Centers"
They can't now every thing about human brain, I love my god for this brain
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great post to share...thanks for sharing this...
i did a post 2 days ago on brain efficiency between man and woman....read it up and find the scientific and homorours angle to it...
keep up the good work and let us keep supporting one another in the spirit of steemit...
I am not sure I you have seen the movie Lucy @dommaraju but it is about a girl who gets to use her brain to its true potential,,, I know it is a movie( and obviously fake) bit I think it will be amazing if we as the human race would be able to use 20% of our brain? Then we would technically be twice as smart hehehe
you right...nice comment and if we put our brains to more use we become super humans....nature ha a way to control things.. what if apes develop their brain capabilities to say 45% use, learns how to speak like humans, develop faster cars, better techs, research in meds...weaponry...then the fears i had watching Planet of the Apes will come to reality...;)
The entire brain gets used. Just not all of it for cognitive or conscience thinking.
awesome and informative post
did you know
Human Brains Consume More Energy than Any Other Part of The Body.
The Brain is Mostly Water
Your Brain Produces Enough Energy to Illuminate a Light Bulb
Our whole body conducts electricity. It is also the reason why we collapse if we receive any shock from electricity at a very high rate
Myth#6 some people have monkeys in their brain lmao
great article
Interesting. Cats have smaller brains than dogs but apparently twice the neurons.
Very Interesting! Thanks for your knowledge sharing
Lets me resteem
Love information like this! Following. Have a great day @dommaraju
am glad you love it...infos about topics like this on brains is quite good to read...nice comment
Interesting. I wonder how this affects kids with autism. They're rising fast.
Good one.I wrote a similar post a few hours ago...debunking brain myths and myths in psychology and neuroscience. Feel free to give me your opinion. My background is in cognitive neuroscience and some of it is from personal experience. My post is considerably different thankfully and much more lengthy and thorough since i plan to write many posts debunking all the myths based on studies and literature.
Thanks for posting...... :)
great post learned a lot from it . thanks for sharing
I am happy that we have better machine then human computer,
at the same time, so sad that we use hardly 10% of our performance.
If we can utilize full , see where our potential goes !
Would be interesting to read more about the other senses. You teased at the end. But it was only one sentence.
You have your next post topic. YW
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@dommaraju this is so nice and informative keep going bro...
U deserve an upvote for this one. Best of luck on @steemit
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those are interesting myths thanks a lot for sharing and keep on posting ;)
Interesting when you really think about the fact that we have far much more senses than we think.
Then there is that concept that back in ancient times people used telepathy to communicate over long distances.
:O
Interesting informations shared here. However, i believe that the human brain remains a mistery to this day and we shouldn't put 100 % trust in all these studies. Who knows what they may discover tommorow. One thing is sure, this is a very complex subject.
i feel like some of us can use more than 10% at once
The first time I heard the term "nociception". Had to get into Google, to understand its meaning=))
Wonderfully complex creatures we are....
Great read! Thank you
exercise is the medicine for Brain.............great post
thank you, your post is very knownledge for me
Thankyou for sharing this , You Explained this Beautifully ! much appreciated! @dommaraju
Also this is my first type of blog in Psychology : https://steemit.com/life/@haky-speaks/types-of-bipolar-disorders
Can you share your views on?
Me gusta tu post porque te hace analizar los mitos cosa que normalmente no hacemos solo escuchamos y repetimos como loros