Mind Control

Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, menticide, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated"^. The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual's sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making. In Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Jacques Ellul maintains that the "principal aims of these psychological methods is to destroy a man's habitual patterns, space, hours, milieu, and so on."

Theories of brainwashing and of mind control were originally developed to explain how totalitarian regimes appeared to succeed in systematically indoctrinating prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques. These theories were later expanded and modified to explain a wider range of phenomena, especially conversions to new religious movements (NRMs).

Are Geniuses Born of Made?

For too long we have considered this question and so far no one has given us a concrete answer. Opinions are for everyone. While some have argued that it is possible to produce geniuses in a particular education system, others argue that 80% of intelligence is inherited and 20% is acquired.
U.S. and Australian experts believe they have the answer, after identifying a part of the brain that is stimulated after being "disconnected" and seems to release other functions and creative capacity.
Examples abound in the Internet geniuses, such as Albert Einstein, Mozart, Isaac Newton, etc.. But there are special cases that science has failed to explain as follows:

The Symphony of Marc Yu

Two years sing a song heard at a birthday party and immediately went to the piano and played without a single error. A year later he was playing Beethoven. Now, with seven, is able to remember more than forty pieces and has a perfect pitch that allows you to identify musical notes as colors anyone identifies a capacity that can boast only about 10,000 worldwide fortunate.
But how Marc developed this amazing talent for music? Her mother played music as a baby, are we to do his genius or his gifted brain? Education plays a major role in the development of human intelligence.
Marc counter case which was stimulated from an early age, is Genie Wiley. Genie was born perfectly normal physically. Her father kept her locked up to 13 years of age. Genie had no contact with the world. Not even taught him to eat or go to the bathroom alone. His power, up to 13 years, consisted of baby food, cereal and boiled eggs, all of which were provided to hand him.
In 1970, tired of the abuse and beatings, his mother managed to escape, taking their sons.
Genie is a clear example of the effects of severe isolation in the development phase. In this case not only prevented the development of complete functions of the left hemisphere of the brain and the formation of social interactions, but body movements were very restricted, in a very poor environment as relates to novel stimuli.
If not sufficiently stimulates a child's mind at a crucial stage in its growth fails to develop a relatively normal intellectual capacity.

The idiot savant syndrome

This syndrome occurs in one in 2000 people with mental disabilities. Its origin may be an illness or brain damage occurred before or after birth. The special talent that characterizes it is usually associated with music, mathematics, drawing, painting or a prodigious memory management.
In an article published in Scientific American, American psychiatrists Darold Treffert and Daniel Christensen have for Kim Peek, a 54 year old man with mental retardation, problems with balance and a stunning memory management. Peek reads at a rate of six pages per minute and has memorized over 9000 books of history, sports, movies, geography, astronautics and classical music, among other topics.
Reading the novel The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, it took less than an hour and a half. Four months later he was asked the name of the radio operator of the Russian submarine. Peek said the character's name, described his personality and recited verbatim some passages of the book without mistakes. - Here is the introduction of a documentary about his life -
The Guardian interviewed a very peculiar genius autistic. The boy in question is Daniel Tammet, which answers instantly formulas or mathematical problems that are presented, but the most curious of your case, is that it is able to see the numbers like shadows, colors and textures. In fact, the way numbers are represented in your head is very logical: to multiply two numbers you see two shadows instantly appears third shade that corresponds to the answer to the question. Mental images.
Tammet's abilities beyond the super intelligence, as they get closer to extraordinary mental qualities. - The following is a video of Daniel Tammet on The Late Show with David Letterman, is a very funny interview is in English but, excuse me-
So ... What genius lies? Scientists have been unable to answer this question, but me! Hahaha but IMHO is: The genius depends equally genetics and / or environment where the individual develops

Remixed brain waves reveal soundtrack of the human brain

Scientists have combined and translated two kinds of brain wave recordings into music, transforming one recording (EEG) to create the pitch and duration of a note, and the other (fMRI) to control the intensity of the music. The research, published November 14 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Jing Lu and colleagues from the University of Electronic Science and Technology, China, reveals an improved method to reflect the physiological processes of the scale-free brain in music.

Previous research published in PLOS ONE by the same group has described how EEG amplitudes and waveforms may be converted to music. In the past, researchers at the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate have also explored the possibility of a form of neuro-training called 'Brain Music', which uses music created from an individual's brain waves to help the individual move from an anxious state to a relaxed state.

This new study uses simultaneous EEG and fMRI recordings to better represent the activity of the brain in musical notes. According to the researchers, this brain music "embodies the workings of the brain as art, providing a platform for scientists and artists to work together to better understand the links between music and the human brain."

The authors also suggest that combining EEG and fMRI data may produce music that better reflects the functional activity of the brain, potentially leading to improvements useful for clinical diagnosis or biofeedback therapy in the future.

15 Big Ways The Internet Is Changing Our Brain

15 Big Ways The Internet Is Changing Our Brain

Noted science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov predicted that one day, we'd "have computer outlets in every home, each of them hooked up to enormous libraries where anyone can ask any question and be given answers, be given reference materials, be something you're interested in knowing, from an early age, however silly it might seem to someone else," and with this appliance, be able to truly enjoy learning

instead of being forced to learn mundane facts and figures. His insight has proven to be amazingly accurate, as we now live in a world with the Internet, where nearly the entire wealth of human knowledge can live at our fingertips or even in our pockets, from being able to summon email from our smart phones to earning entire degrees from accredited online projects. We can also earn these degrees in a variety of options including associate degrees, bachelor degrees, master´s degrees, and even PHDs- all online. Such an amazing feat, of course, doesn't happen without impacting our lives, and scientists have begun to note that the Internet has not only served to fulfill our brains' curiosities, but also rewired them. So what exactly is the Internet doing to our brains? Read on to find out.

1. The Internet is our external hard drive
Children are learning differently


We hardly ever give tasks our full attention


We don't bother to remember


We're getting better at finding information
Difficult questions make us think about computers


IQ is increasing over time


Our concentration is suffering


We're getting better at determining relevance
We're becoming physically addicted to technology


The more you use the Internet, the more it lights up your brain


Our brains constantly seek out incoming information


We've become power browsers


Online thinking persists even offline


Creative thinking may suffer

Differences between the brains of men and women

Do men and women have different brains?

Do men and women have different brains?

We like to think that men and women are fundamentally the same, excepting their reproductive organs. We all want the same rights and opportunities, and for some things, such as women's suffrage, it was a long, hard fight to achieve equal footing. As a result, we're often appalled at stereotypical suggestions that the sexes might be different. Witness the reaction to the Barbie doll who said "Math class is tough!" in 1992. In 2005, there was controversy surrounding Harvard president Lawrence Summers when he suggested there were innate reasons for why women did not perform as well as men on tests of math and science. Men, on the other hand, have staged massive protests over any silver screen depiction that paints them as merely beer-swilling, football-watching couch potatoes with the vocabulary of cavemen.

 

OK, so we invented that last example, but just because we can't track down a concrete example of such a protest doesn't mean that men aren't the tiniest bit irked. Still, we do seem to realize that as much as we'd like everything to be equal between men and women, there are differences in how we go about things. The sales of glossy magazines that promise to teach you how to work with someone of the opposite gender as well as self-help books along the lines of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" are proof that we need a little help understanding what's going on inside the heads of men and women.

 

As it turns out, it may be better to turn to neuroscience rather than to Cosmopolitan magazine to figure out what's going on inside that guy's brain. Research indicates that men and women do in fact have different structures and wiring in the brain, and men and women may also use their brains differently. In some cases, this may explain some of the stereotypes that we may not like to acknowledge about the genders. For example, men do score better at tasks that involve orienting objects in space, while women do better at language tests. From there, it's but a quick jump to the conclusions that men are better at reading maps and women talk too much.

 

It's these kinds of stereotypes that make some people nervous about the findings on the male and female brain -- what kinds of implications would this have for our world? Would women immediately be banned from math classes and would men be forced to become engineers? Before we start jumping to conclusions, go to the next page and we'll take a look at just what sorts of brain differences we're dealing with.

 

 

 

The Brain

Your brain is the boss of your body. It runs the show and controls just about everything you do, even when you're asleep. Not bad for something that looks like a big, wrinkly, gray sponge.

 

Your brain has many different parts that work together. We're going to talk about these five parts, which are key players on the brain team:

 

 

1. cerebrum

2. cerebellum

3. brain stem

4. pituitary gland

5. hypothalamus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Biggest Part: the Cerebrum

The biggest part of the brain is the cerebrum. The cerebrum makes up 85% of the brain's weight, and it's easy to see why. The cerebrum is the thinking part of the brain and it controls your voluntary muscles — the ones that move when you want them to. So you can't dance — or kick a soccer ball — without your cerebrum.

When you're thinking hard, you're using your cerebrum. You need it to solve math problems, figure out a video game, and draw a picture. Your memory lives in the cerebrum — both short-term memory (what you ate for dinner last night) and long-term memory (the name of that roller-coaster you rode on two summers ago). The cerebrum also helps you reason, like when you figure out that you'd better do your homework now because your mom is taking you to a movie later.

The cerebrum has two halves, with one on either side of the head. Some scientists think that the right half helps you think about abstract things like music, colors, and shapes. The left half is said to be more analytical, helping you with math, logic, and speech. Scientists do know for sure that the right half of the cerebrum controls the left side of your body, and the left half controls the right side.

Welcome



The Brain

 

Each of the aspects of life; reasoning, memory, intelligence, emotions, vision, smell, hearing, breathing, heart rate, body temperature, hunger, sex, balance, motor coordination, etc., are controlled by a complexly designed organ, the brain. This blog is about the operation, qualities, features and curiosities of this amazing organ of the body.