The Human Brain: The Universe Inside Your Head
In short: The human brain is a 20-watt marvel of neuroplasticity and complexity that remains one of science's greatest unsolved mysteries.
A 1:48 short film in the series “Mysteries Explained”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: National Institutes of Health, “Unraveling the Complexity of Human Brain: Structure, Function in Healthy and Disease States”; National Institutes of Health, “The Principles of Nerve Cell Communication”; National Institutes of Health, “Maintaining a Dynamic Brain: A Review of Empirical Findings Describing the Roles of Exercise, Learning, and Environmental Enrichment in Neuroplasticity from 2017-2023”; BMJ : British Medical Journal, ““No longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head: Early observations of personality change after injury to the prefrontal cortex”; MIT Press, “An Odd Kind of Fame”; NIH, “Brain metabolism in health, aging, and neurodegeneration”; National Institutes of Health (NIH) / PubMed Central, “Evaluating the gray and white matter energy budgets of human brain function”; National Institutes of Health, “How far neuroscience is from understanding brains”.
Sources used in this film
- National Institutes of Health — Unraveling the Complexity of Human Brain: Structure, Function in Healthy and Disease States · View →
- National Institutes of Health — The Principles of Nerve Cell Communication · View →
- National Institutes of Health — Maintaining a Dynamic Brain: A Review of Empirical Findings Describing the Roles of Exercise, Learning, and Environmental Enrichment in Neuroplasticity from 2017-2023 · View →
- BMJ : British Medical Journal — “No longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head: Early observations of personality change after injury to the prefrontal cortex · View →
- MIT Press — An Odd Kind of Fame · View →
- NIH — Brain metabolism in health, aging, and neurodegeneration · View →
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) / PubMed Central — Evaluating the gray and white matter energy budgets of human brain function · View →
- National Institutes of Health — How far neuroscience is from understanding brains · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: National Institutes of Health: Unraveling the Complexity of Human Brain: Structure, Function in Healthy and Disease States
- Also: National Institutes of Health: The Principles of Nerve Cell Communication
- Also: National Institutes of Health: Maintaining a Dynamic Brain: A Review of Empirical Findings Describing the Roles of Exercise, Learning, and Environmental Enrichment in Neuroplasticity from 2017-2023
- Also: BMJ : British Medical Journal: “No longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head: Early observations of personality change after injury to the prefrontal cortex
- Also: MIT Press: An Odd Kind of Fame
- Also: NIH: Brain metabolism in health, aging, and neurodegeneration
- Also: National Institutes of Health (NIH) / PubMed Central: Evaluating the gray and white matter energy budgets of human brain function
- Also: National Institutes of Health: How far neuroscience is from understanding brains
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