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