Archive for January, 2006
Female Brain
Posted by: | Comments” Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males.” Brizendine decided to make his own studies and he wrote a book about them, that will be published this summer 2006. He will answer question like :
why are women more verbal than men?
As far as the people I know are concerned, I haven’t seen this to be true.
Why do women remember details of fights that men cannot?
In my case, I’m the one who remember more.
Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts?
As far as I have seen, women don’t keep their friends on a very large number of years like men do, men can make deep bonds with their counterparts but the outer form of the bond might not be seen as ‘girly’.
Chapter of the book will be.
Chapter 1 Birth of the Female Brain
Chapter 2 Teen Girl Brain
Chapter 3 Love and Trust
Chapter 4 Sex
Chapter 5 Mommy Brain
Chapter 6 Emotions
Chapter 7 Mature Female Brain
Epilogue: The Future of the Female Brain
Appendix: The Female Brain and Hormone Therapy
Appendix: The Female Brain and Postpartum Depression
hmm, I’m not really interested in such a book, I’m rather skeptical, I understand that women have different focuses than men and I believe that it’s best to learn from direct observation, add to that the fact that I believe that the human psyche is not specialized in being a man or woman, different focuses will create different neurological circuits and not the other way around. We make our brain, our brain doesn’t make us.
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Smarter with Mozart
Posted by: | CommentsThere is no doubt that Mozart was a pure genius. I’m not going to rehearse all the information about him that you can find freely all over the Internet.
Here, I will write about a study that followed the one that demonstrated short-term
IQ gain, see yesterday post.
It was a 5 days test with 3 different groups of students.
16 abstracts figures were projected to each groups of students. The exercise was to test the ability of students to predict the unfolded shape. Each group had different
background music environment, one was with Mozart’s sonatas, the other with silence
and the last group with mixed sound (Philip Glass and dance music).
The group listening to Mozart scored higher with a gain of 62 %
The group with silence scored 14% and the group with mixed sounds 11%.
Investing in Mozart CDs is a cheap and probably good investment.
Brain and music
Posted by: | CommentsSince the last 30 years, we had heard a lot of talk about the influence of music on the brain. Many scientific papers have been published but the problem with scientist studies nowadays is that there is a large numbers of fraud, nowadays in the scientific world if you aren’t published, you don’t exist, it takes a certain cost in money and time to verify the result of a scientific study, many works go unverified.
Unreliable studies probably exist in the field of brain music, the best you can do , its to try some of the studied pieces of music to see the effect on you.
Mozart will make you smarter ?
According to a study of University of California (Irvine), scientists raised the IQ scores by 8 to 9 points of students by simply having them to listen to 10 minutes of Mozart’s Sonata for pianos in D Major, K448. The gain in IQ faded after only 15 minutes. So good music to listen when you have homework to do.
Tomatis Effect
Energizing the brain, it is what the Tomatis Effect is all about, Dr. Tomatis discovered that high frequency sounds (8,000 hz range) such as the music of Mozart. Exercises the middle ear and can provide a range of health benefits including better sleep, concentration, hearing improvement, the diminution of tinnitus, and generally enhanced mental functioning. However, our ears are no longer accustomed to listen sounds at such frequency, Tomatis had to design a special electronic ear to help people to take benefits of the Tomatis Effect.
Superlearning and Baroque music
The Superlearning method uses baroque music, the developers state that the type of music is very important, as it is the beat, the notes, and sequences of notes used by baroque composers in certain pieces to produce a specific psychophysical effect.
J.S. Bach , Corelli, G.F. Haendel, G.Telemann, Vivaldi are the composers you can listen to for Superlearning.
Steven Halpern music for relaxation and accelerated learning
Steven Halpern is a composer and musician who make music specially designed for accelerated learning and relaxation. I like very much the music of Steven Halpern , you can check out , his website at http://www.innerpeacemusic.com
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Review: Yoga Zone Premiere collection – 4 pack
Posted by: | CommentsIt is a set of 4 DVDs of approximately 55 minutes each. All the exercises are intended for beginners or people with less than 2 years of experience. You will just need 2 equipment pieces to perform the exercises a yoga mat and a yoga strap.
On each DVD you have a menu that present the exercises, you can choose to make the various series all in a row or you can make a selection.
States of consciousness
Posted by: | CommentsPerceived reality changes depending on the state of consciousness of the perceiver (Charles Tart.1975). Scientists use EEG (electroencephalograph) to measure brain waves pattern associated to states of consciousness. However, EEG measures are only an indirect way to identify a particular state of consciousness. Many states of consciousness cannot be detected with an EEG, the EEG might mark either the beginning or the end of the state, but it will not detect the state itself. As example, the EEG doesn’t detect the state of conscious during phenomena such as OOBE or NDE.
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