Hello again! This is officially my final blog post of the year, so I will attempt to make it the most interesting blog post yet! Document Progress: In this past week I have done a substantial amount of work in regards to completing this passion project. I have been finding multiple credible sources to refer to for this blog, I have completed an interview with a mental health professional, written the report for the interview and lastly I have done ample amounts of research concerning my TED talk such as finding interesting videos, sites, and overall gathering ideas together to present. I have not read any other books since my last blog post and only articles online. I have put forth a lot of hard work and effort this week into completing various pieces of this project. Discuss Your Passion: I have been extremely successful throughout this past week, I have gathered many ideas for my upcoming presentation and I am finished my emdia component of the project.There has been no significant challenges that I have encountered depsite the fact that my most recent blogs were not very sucessful. Here are a few questions from my interview that I created for the mental health professional at the Mental Health Centre: 1. Is there a common area of the brain development where certain mental illnesses occur more often? 2. Is there a possible way that a mental illness can be prevented? If not, is there ever a chance of an individual overcoming an illness without the possibility of it re-occuring? 3. Lastly, what exactly occurs in the brain when medication is taken and how effective would you claim they are? Now to discuss the information I gathered this week: It is a common phrase that humans only use 10 percent of their brain capacity, though, after several years of research and extended technology, neuroscientists are able to prove that this fact couldn't be farther from the truth. Before I begin, take a look at the quick video down below for a summary of what I will be discussing. Over the course of each day, humans use virtually all of their brain, and essentially use 100 percent of their brain capacity throughout certain points of the day. The brain uses nearly 20 percent of glucose and oxygen, the bodys essential nutrients. Researches are able to examine the brain with magnetic resonance imaging and have concluded there is an absence of any dorment parts of the brain. So how much of our brain do we truly use? The brain consists of roughly one hundred billion brain cells, 10 percent of which are neurons and the other 90 percent are 'glials'. Glial cells simply encapsulate neurons and support neural functions. Neurons that perform the same functions generally tend to cluster together. Below is a video to portray how intellegent humans truly can be depite the fact that we are unaware of it. The energy consumed by the brain is put forth into fueling eletrical impulses which as a result employ neurons to communicate. This is why the brain requires so much power, as it is the largest organ of the body. The link below is simply a test to get all of your brain working at once, test what your brain is capable of: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpfYCZa87g There are essentially three sections of the human mind: the unconscious, preconscious and conscious mind. The concious mind refers to only 10 percent of your brain capabilities, the subconcious mind refers to the majority of your brain, 60-70 percent and lastly 30-40 percent of your brain capabilities are the unconcious mind acting. The subconscious mind plays the largest role due to the fact that it bases off of your memories, previous thoughts and previous beliefs. It controls your actions and behaviour without you intending it to. The subconcious mind plays the largest role when an individual fears something as well or when an individual becomes nervous. Many may think that after a traumatic injury to the head or those with some sort of illness in the brain may have a limited brain capacity, this is false. When a brain encounters some sort of physical damage or chronic damage, it undergoes a mechanism referred to as neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is essentially the compensation for disease or injury to the brain by allowing the neurons to reorganize by a mechanism referred to as: axonal sprouting. This occurs when undamaged axons recconect with neurons that have damaged nerve endings by growing new nerve endings. New neural pathways may also be created to accomplish some sort of function. Down below is a video portraying essentially how neuroplasticty takes effect. Next Steps:
I am currently on a fairly tight timeline at the moment given that my last portfolio item is due, the TED talk is quickly approaching and this final blog that I must complete. Despite what is needed to get done, I am currently on track with my progress. I am finished my final portfolio, I am finished the final submission of my weekly blogs, and I have gotten a head start on my presentation outline, which is to be performed on January 9th roughly a week and a few days from now. I plan to be entirely done the outline and slideshow formy TED talk presentation by the end of this weekend and strictly practice presenting my ideas. I am surely anxious for this upcoming week but it will finally be the time where I am able to express to my peers all the information I've learned!
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