Myths of the human brain...

Hello everyone!

As you remember, last Tuesday, we had a class with Dr. Pedro Maldonado, an ICBM’s teacher, in which he talked about the myths in relation to the human brain.

These myths to which Dr. Maldonado’s referred, was about all people think about the human brain. Dr. Maldonado’s exposition was very interesting, because he talks about subjects that we, as health students, we must study, as is the structure and functioning of the human brain.  

I think it would be nice to relate to several myths which Dr. Maldonado’s referred, because all of these myths have a component of our thoughts, that is, some things we can still believe myths.

  The human brain is the responsible for the human senses, memory, thoughts and the control of our body. In an adult human, brain weight about 1.4 kilograms, but is very strong because use about 25% of the Oxygen that the body have.

But, what are the myths about the brain?

Well, one of these myths says that the human brain is special, unique; different of the brain of the other animals, but if we look and compare the brains, both have the same parts.

Another interesting myth say that every brain function is localized in an specific place of the brain, but when we do an action active many sectors of the brain to do only this action. There is a sector with more activity like others but is not a single place to do this action. At the same time activate a lot of place of the brain.

One last myth about which I would like to discuss is the comparison of the human brain with computer.  This is a false belief, because while the computer has a localized memory, human brain has a distributed memory. While computer has a lineal operation, human brain has a parallel operation; while computer has a binary system, human brain has an analogy system, and while computer hasn’t history, human brain if you have.

Well classmates, these are the points that I consider most important of the Dr. Maldonado’s exhibition.

See you in class

Are you stressed?

 

Hello dear classmates

Today’s topic is not the most pleasant. But it is important to take into account because we suffer because of our lifestyle, work, and the requirement of the university. Stress in our subject today.

Stress is the way of human answers when faces to extreme are emotional, psychological, or environmental situations.

Manifestation of stress are commonly state of alarm and adrenalin production, short-term resistance as a coping mechanism, and exhaustion, as well as irritability, muscular tension, inability to concentrate and a variety of physiological reactions such as headache and elevated heart rate.

Stress can significantly affect many of the body's systems, as can an individual's perceptions, and reactions to stress.

Stress can affect anyone. But most affect people is who can work all time, students, or people doesn’t have time to do activities different from their normal, such as sports, travels during the day, or simply stay in home and watch television.

Responses to stress include adaptation, psychological coping such as stress management, anxiety, and depression. Over the long term, stress can lead to diminished health or increased propensity to illness, to avoid this, stress must be managed.

Stress condition can affect all areas of our lives, because when we are stressed, we can’t put all our attention on what we are doing because we feel tired, overwhelmed or even desperate by the very fact of having many things to do. Therefore, in order to avoid affecting our work or academic performance, we need to prevent, control or prevent reaching a stress condition

Responses to stress include adaptation, psychological coping such as stress management, anxiety, and depression. Over the long term, stress can lead to diminished health or increased propensity to illness, to avoid this, stress must be managed.

So, dear friends, to prevent an stress condition we need realized activities different to our normal activity because we need distraction to relax and enjoy the life. Not all is work or study. We can family and friends with whom to share and enjoy life.

See you in next post.

A healthy lifestyle...

We must remember despite the time is short, we can do a moment to care our bodies, although this moment be short, because we need to release the tensions of the day, to stay healthy, without forgetting that we do some physical activity to keep our bodies in top condition, complementing this with a balanced diet.

As an example to follow, we can take people who live the sports as a lifestyle. For these people, do sports is a way to maintaining a healthy body, because with a healthy body we can have a healthy mind.

To maintain a healthy body we can do a lot of things, such as go to the gym, run in the park or simply go to walk after work. Other good idea is cycling in the park or does a run into the city.

Another issue to consider to maintaining a healthy lifestyle is complement sports and healthy and diet eating, to give to our body the tools to have a good functioning, and obviously all activities will be beneficial to cope with the stress of modern life.  

This balanced diet should have variety in types of foods, nutrients, colors and flavors. We must not forget that eating healthy is to eat tasty too. 

Well dear friends, I hope you enjoy my post and I invite you to have a healthy lifestyle, with sports and tasty and healthy food.

See you in next post.