Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Mind Reading

Technology is incredible! What several years was imposible to find out is now discovered to be very easy to do. Thanks to the MRI mind reading is done throughout the whole word. The machine is like huge magnets that can detect several things. First of all, neuroscientists see the brain while it is actually working and processing information. Colors light up in computers connected to the MRI, and show which part of the brain is working. Several questions are asked to test some variables and depending the part of the brain that lightens up, we can see what kind of answer you are giving. These type of discovery is described as mind reading. The MRI should be used in proper and useful ways to help society and many of the conflicts we have people of people lying. Every second technology is advancing and sooner or later scientists will know when people lie or not. These days we can see people´s intentions. In the future these machines will be of great use, but when studies are more accurate and strong valued. My curious question is: Is this MRI information really accurate and trustful?

Monday, February 21, 2011

Inside the Teenage Brain

Being a teenager is not easy at all. Learning about the brain is so interesting because you learn new stuff and understand why things happen. Teenagers have so much problems with their parents that conflictss at home occur. Change of mood is so common that people are used to it. Emtotion is managed by the frontal lobe. Until age 21 the frontal lobe is fully developed and this is why we become legal at this age because supposely we are well-mannered humans who can take good decisions and care for ourselves. Sleep is a fundamental requisite for teenagers. Át least nine hours of sleep are needed for a teenager to have good academic achievements and take good decisions. Average sleep for teenagers is about seven hours and this is not enough. Sleep well and see the benefits from this, it makes you a happier and less lazier person. Parents are such an important role in this part of our lives. Someone must be there to support and comprehend our behaviors and show us the right and wrong path. What better person than your mother and father? Telling them stuff makes us learn from our mistakes and they will never turn their backs to us. Enjoy being a teenager.