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Generally regarded as the center of the nervous system in most living beings.

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Would born-blind people be able to make sense of shapes if they were healed?

Molyneux's Problem was published in Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in 1690. It was a thought experiment which essentially asked whether a person who was born blind, and could feel the difference between shapes and sizes, would be…
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Can brain waves be adjusted by music and affect phsical or mental health?

Possible Duplicate: Can I get high using binaural beats? Recently I've stumbled upon several brainwave synchronization audio programs ("Brainsync" for example). Generally those programs claim to help you to improve your physical / mental health…
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Does putting a tiny electrical current across the parietal lobe boosts maths ability?

A 2010 BBC article says: Applying a tiny electrical current to the brain could make you better at learning maths, according to Oxford University scientists. They found that targeting a part of the brain called the parietal lobe improved the ability…
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Is the experience of unified perception produced by the (physical) brain?

From 1:37 to 3:22 in this video, the claim is made that we can clearly see that brain chemistry cannot give rise to unified subjective experience and cannot explain how our experiences emerge. The core issue of the mind, our subjective experience,…
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Can brain tests on toddlers predict future criminality?

A study reported in Nature Human Behaviour in 2016 generated a lot of media hype. Typical headlines asserted: The disturbingly accurate brain science that identifies potential criminals while they’re still toddlers or: Future criminals revealed…
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Does "midbrain activation" cause clairvoyance?

There was this kid in my town who claimed that his instructor had trained him using Mid-Brain Activation, see Midbrain Activation) techniques, and as a result he could "see" things while being blindfolded. He performed this in front of me wherein he…
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Is MSG excitotoxic?

Popular YouTuber Alex Jones claims (in a YouTube video with nearly 1M views) that MSG is an excitotoxin and harms the brain and liver. I haven't even had time to get into MSG. I mean, I've interviewed brain surgeons, neurologists, scientists. I…
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Do male human brains have better global efficiency than female human brains and female brains have better local efficiency in the right hemisphere?

Wikipedia writes in Lateralization of brain function: Significant differences between male and female hemispheric rivalry and dominance have been established. Male brains have significantly better global and rivalry efficiency between the…
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What is the source for these brain scan images?

Here are four brain scan images, attributed to some non-scientific twitter account on the left: https://twitter.com/ProtestPics/status/717547937841221632/photo/1 Trying reverse image search brings up a lot of tumblers, blogs, anti-pharma sites, PTSD…
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CPH4 is exist or not

what if our brain really works at more than 50%.In Lucy movie they were telling about the drug name CPH4 or they tell that it will produce at the time of pregnancy when women is at 5 or 6 months.Is this true a drug CPH4 really produce at the time of…
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Are people thoughts broadcasting on their brain-waves frequency?

Before my question, these are results I've gained when I researched about brain and neurons in couple of websites (plus my analysis!) : (It's not about reading thoughts through "monitoring brain waves") Brain is actually an organic computer that's…
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Does the combination of red wine and cheese cause bad dreams?

I have only anecdotal evidence to support the aforementioned claim: heard it from several people in my youth and believe to have experienced it myself, but that might be placebo. Some quick googling yields a handful of forum messages and…
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Does social media have measurable impacts on our brain?

Possible Duplicate: Is Social Networking harmful to mind or body? Many claims are being made on social media affecting everything from attentionspan to ability to comperhend complex ideas. Are there any conclusive evidences for such claims?
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Does the right eye feed information to the left brain hemisphere while the left eye feeds information to the right brain hemisphere?

Changingminds writes in Right and Left Brain: The brain cortex (the crinkly 'walnut' bit) is divided into two clear hemispheres, connected by the corpus callosum, which provides an 'information highway' between them. The halves are neither mirror…
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