Unveiling the Mighty Defenders: The World of White Blood Cell The human body is a marvel of complexity, with countless processes working together seamlessly to keep us healthy and thriving. One of the most crucial components of our immune system is the white blood cells, also known as leukocytes. These tiny warriors play a pivotal…
The Immune System: Your Body’s Fortress and Defender Imagine a fortress constantly under siege by various threats, from cunning infiltrators to marauding invaders. This fortress represents your body, and the defenders? Your immune system. It’s a complex and remarkable network of cells, tissues, and organs that work tirelessly to protect you from harmful pathogens and…
Battling Insomnia: Your Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Sleep Challenges Introduction In today’s fast-paced world, where stress and technology dominate our lives, getting a good night’s sleep has become increasingly challenging. Insomnia, a common sleep disorder, affects millions of people worldwide, leaving them tired, irritable, and struggling to function during the day. But fret not, for…
The Aromatic Symphony: Decoding the Science Behind the Smell of the Air Unveiling the Intricacies of the Air’s Fragrance The sense of smell is a powerful and evocative sense, capable of transporting us through time and space with just a single whiff. Yet, the intricate and captivating aromas that fill the air often go unnoticed…
YOUNG & OLD Brain scans reveal the different ways young and old brains process information. When young and old test subjects look at pictures, the young brains experience most activity in the right hemisphere, in a region known as the right visual cortex. Older brains activate the visual cortices of the right and left hemispheres…
CHANGES IN PERFORMANCE Nevertheless, some decline in brain function is inevitable as we age. The first system to show its age is memory. Brains begin requiring more time to learn and store information in late middle age. At the same time, the prefrontal cortex experiences a drop in its ability to hold information in so…
EMOTIONAL CONTROL Further research indicated a difference between adults and children in their ability to lessen emotional responses. Mario Beauregard of the University of Montreal demonstrated the importance of age in emotional control with a two-part experiment. In the first part, he performed fMRIs on women between ages twenty and thirty, and on girls between…
EMOTIONAL APPRAISALS [ MATURITY ] The mature brain has the ability not only to register emotions but also to reappraise them before taking action. Adults, unlike children and adolescents, can mentally detach themselves from the emotions they experience, label them, and place them in context-in short, realize what they feel, why they feel it, and…
MATURITY – FINDING BALANCE AS THE BRAIN AGES AFTER ADOLESCENCE, the brain transitions into adulthood. A fully functioning prefrontal cortex is the highest expression of the human brain. The balance of reason and emotion marks the emergence of the adult brain. Only in functional adulthood does society expect a person to have the ability to…
JOHN NASH’S LONG JOURNEY ECONOMIST and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., started hearing things when he was young. He became convinced that aliens were communicating through the New York Times, and he rambled through Europe in a vague quest of becoming a refugee. At Princeton University he scribbled late into the night on blackboards, earning…