Category: Neuroscience
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How your brain creates your sense of self and out-of-body phenomena
I’m working on a literature review for my Master’s thesis. The thesis is about identity formations for healthy humans who use technical body enhancements, like exoskeletons, brain-computer interfaces and other gadgets, making them achieve abilities they could not achieve without the enhancements. Today I have finished reading Olaf Blanke and Thomas Metzinger (2008) influential paper…
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What is autism and who is an autistic person
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), autism spectrum disorders, and Tourette’s syndrome are all developmental neuropsychiatric illnesses. They are congenital or appear in early childhood. ADHD and autism spectrum disorders share a symptom profile comparable to Asperger syndrome. ADHD is a relatively less common disorder in the population (3%), and autism is even rarer (1%). Please…
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Motor disorders
Yesterday I was doing pull ups, handstanding, and some balancing on a canoe. With no giving a single thought of how I should execute my muscles to move so they would pull me up above the bar. Or how would my wrists, abs and thighs strengthen and balance me while I pushed my feet toward…
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Neuroanatomical terms for directions and Brain Geography
This post contains four topics: Galen, the first man to understand brain is for thinking, Brain navigation, Brain planes and Navigation terms. Galen In front of me lies a digital copy of a Cognitive Neuroscience book written by Marie Banich and Rebecca Compton, 2018, published by Cambridge University press. While reading this book I have found myself extensively…