Search the Community

http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/ You can take tests in order to assess your memory, reasoning, concentration and planning. I'm scoring top points in reasoning and concentration, memory however is a big problem for me. Let me know how you guys do! P.s - anyone know whether there is a way to improve short/long term memory? Always been struggling with it.

Hi, Stefan have presented so much good info about peaceful parenting during the years, that sometimes I get lost in all the material. Which podcast would be the best on info/facts about yelling at kids and the effect on brain development? Any advices? Or other links to studies? I have this Facebook-discussion currently with people claiming that yelling to kids is important when they "do not behave" and stupid arguments like that, and I will present only the best facts and direct them to best possible material/studies. Although, some of the people discussing with me, say "what if the studies are wrong" .. haha oh my, please help me guys, please help me :)

Hi, The reason why I bring this up is that I believe I may have inherited the condition? My behaviour parallels with the symptoms of the condition and a close relative was diagnosed with it. Want to find out as much as possible? Thanks. http://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/guide/bipolar-disorder-causes This like many other pages describes possible hormonal processes (not most scientific way to put it). Maybe what I meant to ask was what are the causes of it? Doctors still don't know the causes. I got carried away I think...maybe I will draw a line under this topic.

For the past several months something has bothered me. I felt as if something Stefan was saying was self-contradictory. I called into the show twice to try and figure out what it was. I figured it out. I have written an open letter to Stefan detailing my thoughts. you can read it and comment on it here if you like. Enjoy.

So today while studying psychology I met this girl who said that she doesn't believe that we have free will. She said that we are like animals, only a bit more complicated. She also said that we can't really effect on what happens to us in the future, because everything we do is just a chain of complicated decisions made by our brains for us in search for happiness. This made me very sad and I can't get it out of my head... What if I really am just a brain and couple of other organs in my body. Perhaps I don't really think about things the way I believe, but am just being l controlled by a bunch of mindless instincts. It's really making me a bit nervous... Has anyone ever thought about this, or could share his opinions? I would like that a lot. Markus FIN

All children (6) in my family were "strongly encouraged" (required) to play instruments and were offered the option to continue after one year. I (and one brother) stayed with it for years and through multiple instruments. My siblings teased, ostracized, and tried to make me feel bad because I was sharp, had a good memory, never needed to study, seemed to just pick up stuff by osmosis, etc. Oh well, they all had the chance. http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-playing-an-instrument-benefits-your-brain-anita-collins I'd be interested in brain studies on how singing affects the brain. Perhaps they exist. I think I'll go look that up right now. I really do love to sing and people say I look completely different when I'm singing.

So recently is discoverd somethign about myself that i wanted to share here on the forums. And i think this is somethign that applies to many whom strugglte with such thigns as procrastination, lack of motivation and other related problems for example feeling that "you" are unable to want something more than mere short term satisfactions. The switch which this title is: - An object, activity or service of the sort whcih you use in your everydsay life which has become so saturated with being part of your life that it not only seems normal but in questioning your issues, problems and emotional issues (depression, sadness, frustrations ect.) your sub-chounchessness will actively block. - This "switch" is more subtle than for example cocaine since it hides in your very presence as normal: In other words cocaine users can SEE the negative effects of drugs but get benefits which addict them and also feels good but the bad effects can atleast be seen as bad. - The switch is something which will circle around you when you try to use theraphy and conversations about these thigns with your friend and family and it actively is that something which is ALWAYS out of question not knowingly, becaus ethen it would be too obvious. - The switch becomes feeding mechanism for you like addictive drug but is more sublte and some object, avtivity and "service" (hobby service you buys and use). You get short term gain from it and long term procrastination since your body and mind are "sated" by it cosntantly and thus it prevents you moving on. In my case it was sexual fetishes and computer screen "switch" thus i named it that. Now i realize it may have been researched better and called by other names. And its m,echanism explained by scientists better elsewhere. How it works: For example, computer switch can never be turned off and every time it comes up youll ignore it and your emotions take strong hold and try to sway you away from being critical of it. And most strongly, when you finally DO find out it and dont use it for while, you realize that since this "happy good" feed has been cut off you can start doing other thigns. Now OBVIOUSLY, self knowledge understanding your childhood and past is essential. Usually this is just detrction mechanism. Is there any object, item, service or actvity that you seem to "like and use", try not doing it for while and see if you suddently feel motivated to do things in more productive manner that wont make you feel liek youre stuck. I am writing this naturall with my monitor on. But since i now understand this switch of mine i dont feel as strong urge to jsut aly about in its feed. And i feel doing other things. And this applies to the OTHER switch i mentioned. Ideas and critism and "DUUHness" is appriciated if this simply feels like or IS just a different type of addiction. Or way of descriving addiction.

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-may-have-discovered-consciousness-onoff-switch New research conducted on an epileptic patient has led to what might be the 'on / off' switch for human consciousness. 'The scientists stumbled upon this finding whilst stimulating different areas of the brain of an epileptic woman and measuring resultant activity in order to find the epicenter of her seizures. They discovered that electrical stimulation with an electrode placed between the left claustrum and anterior-dorsal insula caused the woman to lose consciousness. She completely stopped moving, became unresponsive and her breathing slowed.' This might have been better placed in the religion / atheism forum as yet another blow to the idea of a 'soul', but I thought it was more interesting as a point for science. For more really cool things that researchers have found by looking at people with damaged brains, check out this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind

Hello everyone, new to the forums but I though I should post a very important topic of mine here, hopefully this is the right section. So here is my case: I feel very stressed and confused with all the libertarian videos and this includes Stefan’s. I find myself in quite a dilemma, for all the insightful and good information stef and other provide I find new information merely adding to my stress and pain and more I know and more I learn the less reason I see to care about certain things. Some might find this silly or even bizarre but I simply cannot see any reason to add to what I already accept and the moment I try to bring this information to the rest of the world threes nothing much other than stress and painful endless argumentation going on. I cannot convince anyone, every time I do try I get so stressed I can’t sleep until I get response and frankly all this negative doom and gloom (real events or/and fear of them) push my energy low and my apathy higher. Does it seem that I am just being over reactive to bad news? Or does it seem like case where I try FOOLISHLY to be the atlas and carry world’s troubles on my shoulders and eventually just collapse? I want to live my life but I don’t want to live in this endless cycle that 100'% wasteful and unnecessary. Please, if anyone has had similar experiences, any help would be appreciated. I naturally want good mental condition and good life as much possible but I do not want to feel like lazy bum for not trying to change people’s minds and being philosophically static. However I feel my sleep, health and just overall STUFF that happens in normal everyday life has alarmingly faded in place of worry and constant anger at peoples idiocy and ignorance. My thanks beforehand, Anssi J. However i feel my sleep, health and jsut overall STUFF that happen in normal everyday life has alarmingly faded in place of worry and constant anger at peoples idiocy and ignorance. My thanks beforehand, Anssi J. PS. Also even psoting this i find myself unable to do much at all but jsut wait and wait... for replies. I do not know if this speaks volumes of me or may even hint at possible answer that i just need time to relax and recover... :S