Episode 14

A discovery that has been made within a day or two of this reaching the podcast could change the way we look at our own urine. Scientists have been able to manipulate urine into neurons through lab tests. The target group for these studies have been Alzheimer patience and the results have truly been mind blowing. This could mean we have a cure for the mind-eating decease within years... Exciting.

Episode 13

Recently, scientists have discovered that there might be an extra lobe right in the center of the brain. The name for the lobe has not yet been given but the attributes for the designated area are remarkable. Scientists say there might be an area inside the brain that hosts telekinetic properties. How and in what way is not yet decisive, but the potential could be unlocked in the near future.

Episode 12

Situated just underneath the brain, and attached quite awkwardly, is the so called Cerebellum. Cerebellum is Latin and means little-brain. From this central we gain control over our body through balance and coordination.

The reason we know this is not from seeing it in action or by observing it in a controlled experiment, it is actually from observing people with a damaged Cerebellum.

Episode 11

The fourth and final Lobe in our brain is the The Occipital Lobe. It almost exclusively deals with our sight and without it we are all blind. Because we humans use our seeing as our premium sense, the Occopital Lobe takes up a fairly large amount of our brain- nearly 50%

Episode 10

The Parietal Lobe is situated just on top of the Temporal Lobe and it's functions are amazing! Being in charge of integrating sensory functions inside the body, the Parietal Lobes main objective is to manipulate the muscles of our body, Making us move!

Episode 09

The Temporal Lobe is situated behind the ear, which is handy because the primary objective for this part of the brain is auditory perception, such as, hearing. It also deals with most things associated with language, such as, speech and vision. If someone were to remove a random part of this area of the brain, you might lose the ability to understand letters or words for example.

Episode 8

The frontal lobe mainly contains dopamine-reactive neurons, which means it's extra sensitive in determining our behavior. From here everything from reward, planning, short-term memory and motivation is controlled. If you are bad at planning for example it probably comes down to you having a poorly evolved frontal lobe, but don't worry, the frontal lobe is one of the last things that fully develops inside the brain. Hang in there, there's still hope!

Episode 7

If you've ever tried to study the brain there is one word that pops up a lot; Gray matter. So what is gray matter? Well, Gray matter is simply a word scientists use to describe the brains outer tissue. Ironically, calling what gives our lives so much color and so much excitement, something so dull.

Being the head of coordination, reception, memory and speech- you would be tempted say the brain would be quite gray without gray matter.

Episode 6

Pain is something we only witness in our mind- yes, that's right, scrubbing your knee doesn't mean your knee actually hurts. You knee is only sending pain signals to the brain which then recognizes the inconvenience.

However, if I were to open up your head and punch your brain, you would actually not feel any pain at all because there are no pain senders inside the brain itself- Ironic isn't it!

Episode 5

Many people ask themselves; why does the brain look so wrinkly? The simple answer to the question is that it makes more room for information. if you would flatten out the wrinkles, and make it a smoother surface, the brain would hold about a third of the capacity. If we look at other animals, such as the frog, the brain is smoother looking which also makes for a more primitive being.