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unusual facts about Human brain


Externalization

In a concrete sense, by taking notes, we can externalize the function of memory which normally belongs in the brain.


BRAIN Initiative

The BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, also referred to as the Brain Activity Map Project) is a proposed collaborative research initiative announced by the Obama administration on April 2, 2013, with the goal of mapping the activity of every neuron in the human brain.

Gummy Song Skull

This was a limited release contained on a USB keydrive and placed inside a brain-shaped gummy that was further encased in a gummy skull.

Maxie Clarence Maultsby, Jr.

Based on the neurophysiology of a healthy human brain (unlike other therapies based on introspection, observation, or the philosophical influences of Hellenistic Stoicism on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy).


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Area 44

Brodmann area 44, or BA44, part of the frontal cortex in the human brain

BA20

Brodmann area 20, a part of the temporal cortex in the human brain

Bolte

Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959), neuroanatomist specializing in postmortem investigation of the human brain

Brain mapping

Of specific interest is using structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion MRI (dMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), positron emission tomography (PET), Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and other non-invasive scanning techniques to map anatomy, physiology, perfusion, function and phenotypes of the human brain.

Comparative cognition

Similarly, gene activity in the human brain is better understood through examination of the brains of mice by the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science (see link below), yielding the freely available Allen Brain Atlas.

Computer simulation

a complete simulation of the life cycle of Mycoplasma genitalium in 2012; and the Blue Brain project at EPFL (Switzerland), begun in May 2005 to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level.

Corpus callosum

Of more mainstream impact was a 1982 Science article by Holloway and Utamsing that suggested sex difference in human brain morphology, which related to differences in cognitive ability.

Dowagiac, Michigan

Billi Gordon - Model, Actor, Author, Television & Film Writer, & Doctor of Functional Human Brain Research

Facial recognition

Face perception, the process by which the human brain understands and interprets the face

Fred Gage

In 1998, Fred H. Gage (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California) and Peter Eriksson (Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden) discovered and announced that the human brain produces new nerve cells in adulthood.

H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon

(While the story takes minor elements from "The Whisperer in Darkness", the bat-like aliens have little in common with the Mi-go. The only real similarity seems to be in their ability to transfer a human brain into a new container, albeit one of their own bodies rather than a canister, as a means to expand their population. They also bear no physical resemblance aside from wings.)

Human Connectome Project

The goal of the Human Connectome Project is to build a "network map" that will shed light on the anatomical and functional connectivity within the healthy human brain, as well as to produce a body of data that will facilitate research into brain disorders such as dyslexia, autism, Alzheimer's disease, and schizophrenia.

James S. Albus

From June 2008 to 2009 he was a Senior Fellow of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, where he worked toward advancing the understanding of the computational and representational mechanisms of the human brain.

Large numbers

The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 1014)

Louis Jacobsohn-Lask

In 1899 Jacobsohn and Edward Flatau wrote Handbuch der Anatomie und vergleichenden Anatomie des Centralnervensystems der Säugetiere, which included one of first attempts to classify sulci and gyri of human brain cortex.

Parkinson's Disease Foundation

For example, upon the announcement of President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative to map the human brain, PDF released a statement in which the organization's president, Robin Elliott, praised the initiative and urged the President to include patient advocates directly affected by diseases that impact the brain such as Parkinson's in determining how to move forward with the project.

Paul MacLean

Paul D. MacLean, doctor and scientist who did extensive research on the human brain

Perspectives on the abduction phenomenon

In a long article, Dr. Michael Persinger argues that most of the features of the abduction phenomenon can be explained as the manifestation of measurable functions of the human brain.

Verbal memory

Verbal encoding appears to be strongly left-lateralized in the medial temporal lobe of the human brain, however, its functional neuroanatomy can vary between individuals.