Is it possible to live with one hemi-sphere of the brain removed? Rather strange and scary it might sound, but there are people who have been living with one half of the brain. The reason for this strange surgery was very frequent seizures in the left-half of the brain. The subject Mr. Harrison had this surgery in a childhood age rather than after being adult. Perhaps that is why the remaining right half of his brain could take over the tasks of the missing left-half. This might not have been possible in older patients.
One is a mixture of genes one is born with and the environment in which one is raised. Our surroundings, our memories and everything we learned and experiences throughout our lives influence of who we become. The sculpting of who we are takes place inside the structural connections of our brain. How does the world leave its mark n each of us? How much of our brain connections are determined by our genes (predisposition connections).
Even the basic brain-connections of recognizing faces (such as parents, etc) are not made from the birth. How does a baby develop brain connections to recognize/respond to human faces?
Genes give a child the potential for mental skills and their experiences determines whether the actual skills develop.
The baby's brain the function of what the baby does, probably the baby builds its own brain from its experiences. In side a brain what changes are not the number of brain cells but the number of connections between these cells. Memory develops as we grow.
Each experiences is responsible in some manner for building the brain-connections. The brain has no use of too many idle connections, so it cuts back on those connections that are not reinforced with repeated experiences. How our individual brains takes shape depends on which connections are reinforced and which fail to stay the course. May be that's the reason why I am writing this blog for me to go through these thoughts sometime later.
One is a mixture of genes one is born with and the environment in which one is raised. Our surroundings, our memories and everything we learned and experiences throughout our lives influence of who we become. The sculpting of who we are takes place inside the structural connections of our brain. How does the world leave its mark n each of us? How much of our brain connections are determined by our genes (predisposition connections).
Even the basic brain-connections of recognizing faces (such as parents, etc) are not made from the birth. How does a baby develop brain connections to recognize/respond to human faces?
Genes give a child the potential for mental skills and their experiences determines whether the actual skills develop.
The baby's brain the function of what the baby does, probably the baby builds its own brain from its experiences. In side a brain what changes are not the number of brain cells but the number of connections between these cells. Memory develops as we grow.
Each experiences is responsible in some manner for building the brain-connections. The brain has no use of too many idle connections, so it cuts back on those connections that are not reinforced with repeated experiences. How our individual brains takes shape depends on which connections are reinforced and which fail to stay the course. May be that's the reason why I am writing this blog for me to go through these thoughts sometime later.
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