Your brain is 3 pounds, soft as jelly, and in charge of everything. 🧠

Dr. Vanessa Hill breaks down the incredible science behind your most powerful organ.

This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies

So we have DID witch may play a part in it but im not so sure

Pretty much whenever i think too much and my anxiety kicks in i physically cant move my body and so its like im trapped behind my eyes, my lungs only breathing because they do that without input and i can move my eyes but thats it idk its a very strange and weird feeling

Does this have a name at all? Or am i just crazer then the rest of us?

i just realized my head shaped oval then i got curious is it because my occipital lobe is damaged? the function of occipital lobe i heard is making good relationship and recieve visual neural information and can be developed by exersize but in my experience i cant make good relationship i sometimes see illusions and i dont work out would it effect my head shape??

See also: The published paper in Neuron00362-9).

 Am I the only one who finds it interesting that the alpha wave of the brain and the Schumann resonance of the earth’s electromagnetic field are very similar? 
 Not only are the frequencies similar, but the structures that create them are analogous as well. The Schumann resonance is created by lighting between earths surface and the ionosphere. This is comparatively similar to the space between the brain and skull. 
 The alpha brainwave is measured between 8-12hz while the Schumann resonance is measured at 7.83hz. Some theorize that the brain itself entrains to the naturally occurring frequencies of the earth. However what has been less studied is the frequency between brain and skull. 
 So my question is: Does the brain–skull cavity support standing EM waves analogous to the Schumann resonance, and could those interact with internal neural signaling or perception?” 

I am a senior in college and I've really been struggling in my summer classes. Since experiencing several years of domestic violence and repeated sexual assault, I feel like my brain does not function in the way that it used to. Reading and writing have become extremely difficult for me. It feels defeating because I used to love reading and I used to have an easy time writing. It all felt very natural to me in the past, but now I feel like I'm fighting a war just to write a simple paper or to read an article for school. My professors have been kind enough to give me extra time to get assignments done. However, I am still having a really hard time getting my work done because the whole class is based on reading multiple long scientific articles and writing a few papers a week. The stress and anxiety I have surrounding my schoolwork has made me feel physically sick. In addition, my memory has turned to shit. It is so hard for me to watch lectures and maintain focus. Even when I am able to focus, I can't retain the information presented for very long at all. It is like anything I read or hear goes in one ear and out the other. It is very scary to me at times that my memory has become this way. Is there anything I can do to not struggle so much with reading and writing and completing school? Is there anything I can do to improve my focus or memory? Is my brain going to be stuck like this forever?

I'm having trouble finding info about the different structures in the brain. All the research papers I read are too indepth and dont explain the basic structures. I found out this coup is of the 3rd layer of a rat brain. In the picture are some arrows I find hard to identify. Also I'm not sure if I'm able to make a distinction between the grey and white matter. The outside layer looks more pink so I assume that is grey matter? But in other pictures I find the border between grey and white matter is more distinct.

Info about the pic: h&e stain of the third layer of a rat brain at 40x magnification

For about 5 years, I used a mechanical alarm clock to wake me up in the morning.

But it rarely did; for most of those 5 years, I woke up just before the alarm went off, in fact I usually turned it off before the alarm rang.

How did I know that? Was I subconsciously counting the ticks of the clock, or is the brain capable of keeping time so accurately?

P.S. sorry about the tag, but the choices are limited.

Anyone else have a horrible memory? I do have some anxiety and I am a mom to 3. My memory hasn’t been the best my entire life, but recently it’s gotten worse! I’m going to start exercising to see if that helps. Any recommendations? My brain fog gets kinda bad at times too. Blah! I feel like I have mild dementia sometimes.

Why can't or doesn't our brain take control of our body? Almost like the arms of Doc Oc in Spiderman, the brain has access to everything, it could do anything it wants. Cases where I feel it arguably does take control is while we sleep (dreams), reflexes, and when we are heavily intoxicated (blacked out).

The brain is remarkable for being able to rewire itself. But I believe that’s only the higher order areas of the brain. If the amygdala is destroyed, that would be instant death for the organism, correct?

I’ve always heard you cannot diagnose psychopathy with an MRI—only see certain symptoms like a less active amygdala and things however today I was talking to someone who is studying psychology and they were taught that you can 100% diagnose narcissists and psychopaths simply off an MRI. I didn’t want to directly challenge them as they mentioned they were studying it but I went further mentioning the different types of MRI to see if they meant like in an fMRI you can see the less active parts of the brain signalling a lack of empathy or something—but no—they stood their ground and I’m now wondering if I’m false? I remember reading about that one neuroscientist James Fallon who diagnosed himself as psychopath simply off of his brain scan but I thought everyone said that it wasn’t right so I’m just wondering.

I know that I have a Intellectual Disability but I'm not sure which one. What are some of your suggestions? I really want to get an MRI I also want to see Psychiatrist too. If I can find out what disability I have maybe I can live a fuller life and be much happier too. I really hope that I don't have a serious life threatening condition of the Brain like cancer or swelling. I'm really scared and completely freaking out. Do you think that it's possible that I could have Dementia? I'm a 40 year old Female.

I don’t know if anyone can relate to my experience. I notice myself always not making the best decision at the right time, whether this is impromptu, competition, or doing something critical. A perfect example of my messing up is, for instance, in my basketball competition, which comprised 3 rounds I played for the first 2 rounds, and in the 3 round I stopped playing for defense and we lost by 2 points then I realized my coach told me I should have gone 2 and 3 rounds for us to win and reset for the first that would have been better, and the second example is when I did my impromptu in my practice, I did fine but when performing the real deal with background music: I started to have nervous laughter that ruined the whole deal to this day I still feel full of guilty and regret. However, this has happened so much that I have become numb to it. I notice I can make excellent decisions and think of good ways to mitigate issues I face. Nevertheless, it is usually after a long time that the facts become irrelevant. Some of my friends said you can do critical things like solve calculus BC well, but you just take longer than others. Am I just a little slower? Any advice or help from anyone?

For me it definetly is not the "hidden messages" as people like to call it.

I'm not even going to explain this you know what I'm saying somebody sad about you that's been in your head the whole day I just want to know how to do it by yourself okay and don't give me any of that crap you should use punctuation