sixpenceee:

hey as a neuroscience major and someone who wants to study and research the human consciousness in the future, this post was a must!

MIND OVER MATTER

• if you believe you sleep well your performance improves
• scientists convince people their hands are rocks
• lying on a bed of nails without injury
• many people in one body
• yogi nearly stops heartbeat
• curing cancer just by thinking you are cured?
• the insane effects of hypnosis on some people
• meditation drys wet towels
• nocebo effect
• phantom pregnancy

WOW FINDINGS ON THE HUMAN BRAIN

• your brain makes decisions before you are even conscious of it
• finding out what cats see
• mental disorders and their brain scans
• mirror neurons: everyone can read minds
• the vegetative patient who could TALK to doctors
• learning how to RECORD your dreams
• loosing sleep can kill brain cells
• what do babies dream about?
• linked brains
• rat brain scans during death
• moving a bionic arm with thoughts
• music can improve a lot of things
• mind control is possible

BIZARRE CASES

• the mentally ill man who cured himself with a gun
• the woman who scratched through her skull
• the man who can’t feel emotion
• the man with almost no brain
• the twins who share a consciousness
• the creepy lazarus reflex
• synesthesia: hearing colors, tasting shapes
• savant cases
• explaining parasomnia
• monkey head transplants
• explaining the split brain effect
• the case of phineas gage
• brain science explanation behind sleep paralysis
• girl with half a brain

Alright that’s all I got so far guys! Be sure to check back on my science section because as we progress further and further and have amazing cool new things, I’ll have new posts with more information :)

Feel free to add to this list also!

(via sixpenceee)