02.12.06
Maintaining the brain and mind control
Heres a short article on the Dalai Lama’s recent talk at a meeting for the Society for Neuroscience, in Washington D.C. Most of the article covers aspects of his visit, but it did have a couple insightful tidbits. Repetitive use of specific neural functions strengthens the cortex in the relevant area. So this means if you play music throughtout life, the related areas in your brain will be stronger as you age. Meditation does the same thing. I wonder what the long term effects of this are. Of course you can get in the zone faster, but does this mean you will have a more peaceful continence or a brighter outlook on life- simply b/c of the way your neural networks have remained developed?
On the other end of the spectrum, we have
Mind Control by Parasites.
Half of the world’s human population is infected with Toxoplasma, parasites in the body—and the brain. Remember that.
Its a parasite found in mice that “alters” the mice’s brain so that it has no fear of cat urine (and may actually hang around it). Consequently, the rat is more easily discovered and eaten. The other crazy bit in the article was the striking parallels between Toxoplasma infection and Schizophrenia.