This is your brain on drugs, naturally.

“Just Say No” doesn’t apply to these drugs. Neurotransmitters are built-in drugs. You have to have them to make interconnections between neurons.

If the activity within a neuron is primarily electrical (though battery driven), the connections between neurons are typically chemical. Once a neuron’s depolarization reaches the terminal buttons, calcium channels are activated to release neurotransmitters into the synapse. [Read more…]

Diagnosing drug abuse starts with understanding the three major types of drugs.

Drugs can be beneficial or harmful, depending on the dose, duration and drive. Clearly, the proper dose for one person can be harmful to another. And many drugs are designed to be short-term treatments. [Read more…]

Amazing Brain Growth Formula!

Gently mix egg and sperm, brew for 9 months, deliver fresh. For full maturity, age for 25 years. [Read more…]

There are eyes in the back of your head.

Well, okay, not actual eyes. But at least there are vsion processors for the information that comes from the eyes. The occipital lobe is at the back of the head, just above the neck. This is the primary projection area for vision. [Read more…]

Data is crawling across the side of your head.

The temporal lobe is critical for processing vision, memory and sound.  We’ll look at all three. For vision, there are two streams of visual information come from the occipital lobe. First, we’ll look at the info sent to the temporal lobe. [Read more…]