Love on the Brain & Imaging…

Love on the Brain...

            Falling in love is not a simple as it seems, but it is very quick, those intense over powering feeling of being truly, deeply in love are the result of complex & rapid brain activity.

        Being in Love or more precisely being in an emotional state of intense longing for union with another, involving chemical, cognitive & directed behavioral components…a pretty complicated affair.

        It’s not a basic emotion, but highly complex & business like process involving twelve areas of the brain working together to produce & sustain that magic moment, according to new research.

        The nuro imaging of Love, Brain regions with… ‘Dorsolateral Middle Fronta Gyrus’ & the ‘Anterior Cingulate’ (unromantic names), as well chemicals like Nerve Growth Factor, dopamine & oxytocin, are all involved in orchestrating these feelings of love According to Dr.Stephanie Ortigue, who led the study…                   

        “Love includes basic emotions and also complex emotions, goal directed motivations, body image, appraisal & cognition”. 

        A relatively new tool that is used to spot the brain activity, stated as 
fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), all love map of the brain.

                    

        Activity in these areas leads to change in the levels of a number of chemical in the besotted brain, including increase in dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline, vasopressin, and a decrease of serotonin, which results in classic love symptoms.

        The Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) is involved too researches, measured blood levels of NGF; finding suggests that NGF may be involved in the early stages of the Love.

        The collection of brain area that are active in passionate or romantic love appear to be unique to that particular kind of love, with research showing that material & unconditional love involve other areas...

                   

        Therefore, it is apparent that romantic love is evidently stronger...
        
        Hope, everyone will appreciate science's progress for effective human evolutions & transformation! There is 'something' important in life other than a post, work or GK. So enjoy Life...

Life bestowed! One Buddhi & Two Brains: part –II

                                                                      In continuation to part-I 

        The most interesting part lies, in the connection of these two halves of the brain. It is on the basis of which, we can able to distinguish by a set of different functions of the connecting bridge…

        The Nature has already made in between the bridges of the brain larger for Women than for Men.

        That is one of the reason why women are more expressive of the emotions and are able to empathize and understand others emotions more easily. The women are also supposed to have a better functioning of intuition, which is known as ‘women instinct’.

        However, the men do not have it as much to begin with. But men having smaller bridge between left and right brain have far more interconnections in this link. So they tend to rationalize things much more and are less easily swept away by their emotions. But they also tend to be less spontaneously communicative of their emotions…

        But with training both left and right brains can acquire full harmonization. As things are, women tend to lose the rational element, which would come by limiting the bridge between left and right brains. Besides, men tend to gain on the emotional and rich sensory experience of life, which comes from widening that bridge...

        Thus,by conscious training one can able to widen the bridge and yet limit its scope at will, as needed by situation. As such, train the left brain, train the right brain and harmonize the working of both! This is necessary for complete development.

        A genius is one who has actually done all three… everyone can potentially do it.

        When,this operation of the left and right brains harmonized together is what we call the “BUDDHI”… the Intellect. In modern studies trends to categories the intelligence into seven types. It is not so crucial for consideration on this issue, because the intellect and intelligence is one. And the types of intelligence only represent facets of expression of the same faculty ‘Buddhi’.

for Mind relaxation..

        Hope, this unique information of working the two halves of the brains and distinction between men & woman's separate working influence, will provide you some real benefits in terms of understanding each other’s compulsion & cause of action or reactions. 

        Thereby, greatly help to minimize conflict situations, considering the helplessness implied on either gender, by the Nature itself. So whenever your counterpart reacts in a different way, think about the post! and organize your appropriate responses! instead of reaction.
        
        Hope, its enough to understand & realize the fundamental cause of misunderstandings between opposite gender...or my approach as the case may be...:)
       
        Thanks!

                                                                                     The End
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2.Mind works through Brain!
3.Legacy in the Brain that builds thought!!
4.The facets of human Intelligence 

Life bestowed!Two Brains & One Buddhi: part -I

Refresh your Mind!

        Human brain with its infinitely subtle & sensitive organism works in the elusive substance of mind and respect the limits imposed by the fragile human body.

        We as individual human being are in possession of Two Brains, one is Analytic and the other is Synthetic, although which appears as one important organ…

        With the biological divisions of left and right brains, two branches of faculties are identified about the Intellect, also known as Buddhi.

        The left brain is primarily Analytic, while the right brain is primarily Synthetic…

  

        The left brain handles numbers, quantities, grammar, logic, structure, and information…Analysis.

        And the right brain handles meaning, feeling, understanding, intuition, comprehension, imagination, and creativity…Synthesis.

        It is the left brain that divides information to study it. The right brain unites it all in order to understand.

        Already,you are aware & further being convinced that, we have two brains. Now, it is more important to know- Which brain is more important?...

        Let me explain and establish the facts before you to enable appropriate & effective realization, as far as possible. At least I’m hopeful; there will be some value addition and enrichment of understanding...

        To start with, if you do not have power of comprehension and creativity, life will stagnate in repetition of old information and habits, while will cease the opportunity of progress. That is why the right brain is called the master of knowledge.

        But, the left brain cuts up experiences into smaller pieces to acquire knowledge over details. The left brain is one that expresses what the right brain knows. That is why it is called the servant of knowledge.

        However, in general educational curriculum & syllabus all over the World, emphasizes the development of left brain faculties almost exclusively.

        Naturally the knowledge becomes fragmented due to under developed right brain faculties. But, you will find most extraordinary or prominent people have the right brain faculty equally developed...

        Thus, it is important and we need to develop both sides of the brain and harmonize their complementary working.

        In this connection be assured, that our education system take charges of development of the left brain faculties… Then how to develop right brain faculties? which is the master of knowledge. Sorry! I have no ready answer to this vital issue on this topic, rater left for individual judgment and analysis…

        Anyway, do you want to know? How sharp differences the functioning of these two halves of the brain is. See how!

        In practice, certain kind of ‘Epileptic’ patients, the doctors control their illness by cutting the link between the left and right brains, so that the two brains halves can function separately…

        Such a person, with separated brain connections, when asked to look at a photograph with right eye, which is connected to left brain- “What do you see?” He says- “I see a house, a tree & some water”… He is asked- “Do you like it?” He replies “I do not know”…

        The same person when looks at the same photograph with left eye, which is connected to the right brain, and once again asked same question… His reply “Oh!It is so beautiful!” next when asked “What does the picture contain?” He replies “I do not know”...

        This confirms the two operations are so distinct! Yes, you may verify the truth from medical fraternity experts.

        Therefore, it is necessary to train both halves of the brain separately and deliberately to produce a perfect equipped mind. Eventually, consciousness flows seamlessly from experience to expression from observation to insight, Right to Left, Left to Right. The connecting bridge in between also has the ability and need to be trained...

                                                                          ... concluded in part-II

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Legacy in the Brain that builds Thoughts!!

        Already, I displayed two posts on the activities in the brain namely: ‘Layer’s of mind & its collaborations’ and ‘Mind works through Brain!’...

        Now, I like to share some scientific information’s on this vibrant control center.

        It is the mind that we what we are today. It is how we conceive thoughts, emotions, ideas & reason. We have it to create language, religion, government, technology & capital…

        It has been established, that human share 99% of their DNA with chimpanzees, so whatever makes us human lies in that remaining 1%? Although it seems very small, the reality is that a genetic difference of even one percent leads to astounding differentiation. If scaled up, it means a divergence of 15 million genetic bases or ‘letters’ out of roughly 3 billion that make up the human genome! These differences in genetic combination's are what differentiate us from all other species…

A panoramic view of Ellora

        The human brain shares most of the different cell types along with their chemical messages with most vertebrate species. We also share the general organization of the different structures in the brain’s outer most layers or cerebral cortex with several members of the primate family. Where we differ is the relative size of particular regions of the cortex and how these regions connect, differences that gives us our uniqueness. These differences in brain wiring have enabled the mental faculties distinctive of our species and give us traits that distinguish us from other animals…

        According to Prof. Mark Hauser of Harvard University, professor of psychology, the human mind is separated from those an animals by four characteristic traits:

        The Generative Computation: Is what enables us to create a virtually limitless variety of words, concepts and things. It is made up of two types of operation, recursive and combination. The recursive is the repeated use of a rule to create new expressions, while combination operation is the mixing of discrete elements to generate new ideas that can be expressed as novel words or musical forms, among other possibilities.

        The Promiscuous Combination of Ideas: This trait, allows us to combine different domains of knowledge, such as art, space, causality, sex and friendship, thereby enabling us to construct new laws, social relationship and technologies.

        The Mental Symbols: It allows us to encode both real and sensory experience, thus forming the basis for a rich and complex system of communication that allows us to keep the symbols to ourselves or express these to others in the form of words or pictures.

        The Abstract Thought: What permits us to contemplate things beyond what we can see, hear, touch or smell. We alone can ponder the universe, God, infinity and death, among other abstract concepts.

        The major transformation that led to the make-up of modern human probably took place during a relatively brief period of evolutionary history between 8000,000 and 50,000 years ago.

        Yet, even with all these incredible findings and theories, the roots of cognitive abilities remain largely unknown and the reason behind the transformation of human minds and amalgamation of specific characteristic remain a mystery. 
        The hope is that with the discovery of unique traits of the human mind, scientists know what to look for and will eventually figure out how genes build brains thoughts and emotions. The human mind may have some way to go before it reaches its complete potential, and the present box or bubble that defines the limits of its capabilities may continue to evolve and remodel our genome to give birth to a novel mind, possessing abilities that we cannot even begin to imagine…

        Let's hope for the best, till then make your permutation & combination's, correlation and cross-correlations freely...