Why Is Brain Activity Important?

“Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - it’s not until we get older that we realize that other people exist (Jennifer Lawrence).” The brain can be a tricky organ to understand. Phineas Gage helped out neurologists find out more about the brain and some other brain information. The brain is basically a storage unit for memories and how it learns different skills. Every time a new memory is formed, new brain connections are also made (qtd. Brain Facts). Also, since the brain is such a vital organ, it actually takes up 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body. The brain is one of the most important organs in your body, if not the most important, that without it you couldn’t do anything (qtd. Brain Facts). To prove this, an active brain

Forebrain: the largest section of the brain. It is responsible for a wide array of a person, such as speech, emotional and intellectual capabilities, memory, motion, and even feeling.

According to the Franklin Institute’s Human Brain Center the brain is like all other muscles in that it must be exercised to maintain proper health. On their website they write “In other words, use it or lose it.” As with any muscle atrophy sets in if the muscle is not used. A couch potato loses muscle tone and strength by lack of use of his muscles and the same holds true with the person who does not actively stimulate and exercise his brain. By stimulating the brain with activities that require it to work, that is to think and solve problems, the brain, like other muscles, maintains its health much longer and better. With activity the human brain is able to

In our entire life or even a day, our brain goes through more and multiple processes than us. There are things it is capable of doing and something it can’t even handle doing. The brain is probably the second most important organ in our body, following the heart, and it is responsible for the things we do and how do those things. It controls the way we walk, talk, the language we speak, the pain we feel, and most importantly, gives us the ability to learn new information and keep the memories that we want to keep. The stressing things we do to ourselves also stress out our brain which keeps us under the influence of pressure. But if we take advantage of the powerful ability of our brain, we can learn, memorize,

Our brains are like muscles in many ways. For example, the more you use it the stronger it becomes. When our brains are "exercised" they grow, are strengthened, and perform to their highest potential. Bodies that are not exercised grow weak and are subject to increased risk of sickness and disease. The brain is no different.

Within the human anatomy, an intricate and complex network of specialised nerve fibres and neurons works in collaboration with the central nervous system and peripheral system, designed to carry out the various actions humans perform every day. The nervous system is also known as the master control unit of the human body, as it operates other major functions such as the circulatory and respiratory systems (Jakab, 2006). It is composed of the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The neurons established within the various sections of the nervous system, is structured with three main parts: a dendrite which is a cluster of branches that operates by receiving information from the

Researchers have studied for many years the role the brain plays in cognitive functions. Cognitive function is when a person becomes aware, perceives, or comprehends something. Cognitive function has everything to do with perception, thinking, reasoning, and remembering. The brain plays a part of each of these things. Researchers could conclude more information about how the brain worked in cognitive function when Phineas P. Gage had an accident causing a head injury. The accident was known as, “the case which more than all others is calculated to excite our wonder, impair the value of

According to Curtin University, research suggests that when we actively exercise our brain with intellectual endeavors, it also helps with increasing the number of connections between brain cells that also improve the functioning of the brain (Curtin University, 2014). With that being said, when we work on having a positive intellectual wellness, we are also improving our brain functioning. Intellectual wellness is important because you are able to mentally grow and stimulate your brain while accepting new ideas and

Often when we are having a bad day, the comment many of our friends and loves ones make is “try not to think about it.” Interestingly, some recent research is showing that our brains ability to filter out irrelevant information is strongly linked to some of the cognitive impairments in depression (Owens, Koster, & Derakshan, 2013). Also, the researchers have shown that by training the brains working memory (WM), individuals with depression can see an improvement in the efficiency of the filtering process, thus not thinking about it might be the answer to better wellbeing. Some researchers have tried to focus their studies on an improvement to fluid intelligence (Gf), or as Jaeggi et al. (2008) describes, our ability to “adapt our thinking to a new cognitive problem or situation. In other words, by training our WM capacity, we can transfer those gains to other related cognitive areas.

Neurons are the basic data processing units for the human brain. Every neuron can receive 1000 electrical impulses from other neurons. Impulses that all come at the same time are added together and, if they are strong enough, they can generate electrical discharge, which is known as action potential or a nerve impulse. Neurons have a cell body or soma. Additionally, they have myelin. Myelin allows nerve impulses to move quickly from one neuron to another, which makes rapid signal transmission possible. It is a critical part of the nervous system and if it is not in a body it can be devastating, which can be exhibited through multiple sclerosis. The nervous system plays an important role in the body 's ability to feel sensations and is made up of neurons, cells, and are necessary to perform even the simplest tasks.  Your body has billions of tree-like processes that are involved in sensing this information from the environment, relaying the information to your brain, and sending information to carry out the act of answering your cell phone as a response to the initial sensory input.

As the center of the nervous system and the control unit of all the organs in the human body, the brain is the most intricate organ of them all. Controlling everything from breathing to sleeping, to walking and talking, your brain is a single organ and yet the most confusing. With many different parts and billions and billions of neurons each connected by synapses, the brain is too complex for any person to ever map out or to completely understand, making it especially difficult because no two brains are the same. Medina attempts to unwrap the rules of the brain and what he and many others have worked to figure out. Brain Rules describes the 12 ways to see you and your brain in a different light. Exercise, attention, sleep, stress, and vision

The brain collects and interprets nerve signals from the entire body and also responds based on information being collected from the person itself. There are so many complexity in which many parts of the brain controls how we feel/emotional needs, our speech, movement, body temperature, self-awareness, and many more. In depth, the brain is divided into several sections/groups. Sections include the Cerebrum, Cerebellum, brainstem, and the diencephalon.

Having a positive brain is important when it comes to being successful in many ways. One benefit of having a positive brain is that it always helps someone see the silver lining of any situation, no matter how miserable the situation might be. Another benefit of having a positive brain is that the brain performs significantly better in a positive state of mind instead of a negative state of mind. Achor also mentions in his TED Talk, a positive brain means that “your intelligence rises, your creativity rises and your energy levels rise”. Finally by having a positive brain, one can more successful in their careers by having a positive state of mind rather than a negative state of mind. I would definitely incorporate Achor’s entire positive brain

This week we are learning about discovery and exploration and I believe the discovery and exploration of the brain are as immense as discovering and exploring the Universe. In” Psychology: Advances in neuroscience ("Secrets of the Brain," National Geographic, Feb 2014)”, author, Carl Zimmer, gives us a tour of some of the amazing research into the brain and the many immense leaps forward scientists are making in the area.

For decades, scientists have been wondering how the brain is capable of producing and understanding abstract concepts. What makes the brain of a genius, take Steven Hawking or Albert Einstein, different from any regular person? Can this level of genius be achieved through training, or does it have to do with the way each individual’s brain is wired? Scientists are working to prove that the brain is ultimately wired different depending on the individual. Extensive research is being done, and all of the results point to one overall hypothesis—