#brain facts

[trapdoorsplder]

This is a new project of mine to educate about trapdoor spiders and the struggles they face.

[happyheidi]

. amazing art by Sarah Nilsson. IG: justfrogetaboutit

[yasha-laurelabonagracia]

My original digital art that I didn't know what to do with so I slapped a "fun" fact that haunts me on it and called it a day. Artist's block is real!

(P.S. Phagocytosis is a completely normal and essential function of a healthy brain. The concept just freaks me out.)

[num8ers]

Brain study notes, but make them colorful 🧠✨ This 10-page Biology cheatsheet breaks down the brain into simple, visual facts: brain basics, cerebrum, lobes, cerebellum, brainstem, neurons, glial cells, synapses, neurotransmitters, sleep, learning, and brain health. Perfect for students who remember better with diagrams, colors, and visual explanations. num8ers.com

[ennard-is-near]

Do you…Do you guys think Scott Cawthon knows what a frontal lobe is? Do you guys know what the frontal lobe is? Because I feel like some people don’t know how much brain that is.

Like holy shit (Brain facts below the cut)

Okay hi welcome to brain facts. So the fascinating thing about human brains is that the basic stuff is in the brain stem and towards the back of the brain, so things like breathing, digestion, and other stuff you do without thinking about it are all back there. The more complex stuff is in the front. Your frontal lobe in particular controls your speech (in an area called Broca’s area I think), motor function and personality. Less severe damage can result in lack of social awareness or increased impulsivity. But we aren’t talking about “less severe” damage so let’s get to the good stuff.

In the 1840s sometime, a man named Phineas Gage had a giant ass metal pole blown (with some sort of explosive gunpowder) through his head (entering under his cheek and exiting the top of his head) and survived. I don’t really think I can do justice how insane this is, but google it if you want to see a photo of a guy holding a rod that went through his head and a couple recreations of it. Gage was alive after this, and was mostly fine except for he had severe personality changes and intense epileptic seizures. What I’m getting at with this is that because the rod shot through his frontal lobe (FNaF reference) he was fine and actually survived about 13 years (just with the personality of an asshole) before he died of a seizure.

A lobotomy was an extremely popular practice in the 1950s that was intended to cure mental illness. Of course nobody knew what was going on back then so really sometimes they were just “curing” like hysteria or melancholy or whatever. The procedure, in its most popular form, involved sticking an ice pick up through a patient’s eye socket and just scrambling their brains (The frontal lobe) with it (extremely simplified). This often resulted in severe damage to their motor and speech skills, their personality, their thinking, etc. But it did make most people easier to deal with, so that’s good I guess. Arguably the most famous lobotomy patient (victim) is Rosemary Kennedy, JFK’s sister.

Okay, this is a FNaF account actually. So I’d like to call attention to a couple things Phone Guy says in reference to the Bite of ‘87. He says that Jeremy survived “without a frontal lobe” which is completely wild but like…probably possible? However it would lead to like total paralysis and complete inability to form coherent thoughts. And while in The Week Before, Ralph does say something about him “not talking anymore. Or doing much else.” And everyone does act like it’s a completely wild thing that he survived (which it is) but I feel like we should probably chalk “without” up to hyperbole, though you don’t have to if you don’t want to.

But even with it still like…partially intact some symptoms of severe injury to that big chunk of your brain are: short-term memory loss, loss of motor (both gross and fine) and speech skills, completely disorganized behavior and thinking, intense personality changes, creating false memories (confabulation, which sounds like a word I made up but it’s not) and probably the wildest one called anosogonia, which is where you just don’t realize that something is wrong with you (or the extent of it)

All this to say: nothing, really. I just really wanted to talk about this.

[xqdrexx]

huh..

So basically, when you're dying, your brain is playing your best memories for 7 minutes, trying to remember the last time you were dying, to find a solution and save you, but it will never find it, because you have never died before in you life, so the brain is panicked and confused, looking for a solution to save you.

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Guess that's all I will be thinking about in school today 🥲

[mindglitch101]

Your brain literally can't process the present moment

You are never experiencing "right now." Your brain takes roughly 80 milliseconds to process sensory input. That means everything you see, hear, and feel is technically a reconstruction — a highlight reel your brain assembles *after* the fact. You are always living 80ms in the past. The "present moment" is a story your brain tells you. Reality, as you experience it, is already a memory. 🧠 We are all just watching the replay.

[gabeofcrows]

HIIIII!! :D

what’s your favorite fun fact and what’s next on your tbr/watch list ???

(hope u have a better day <3)

hi every time i go to answer this ask i literally think of a new fun brain fact and get excited but anywayyy

i am currently reading the perfect world of miwako sumida - my mum gave me the book because it has a trans girl in it. she's becoming more supportive it seems

i am also a book hoarding dragon and have so many books on my physical tbr it's daunting. i think next i'm either just going to pick at random, or finally read dead poets society (love the film, only just got the book)

i don't really watch a lot of things tbh because i get bored easily. but i'm currently watching move to heaven and house md

as for fun facts, i have spent much too long writing up some of my favourite brain facts under the cut! (so you don't have to read through them all if you don't want!

though researchers have identified areas of the brain that are involved in producing and regulating emotions, all of the structures involved are not yet fully known originally there was a theory called the papez circuit, which focus on the hypothalamus and the cingulate gyrus (the brain area that was assumed to be the centre of producing conscious emotional feelings) a neuroscientist called mclean then pulled together a theory called the limbic system - the idea that there are even more brain areas involved, including the papez circuit. so many different brian structures have been added since the inital limbic system, such as the amygdala and parts of the prefrontal cortex! there are other theories too - one day i would love to get my PhD and study the emotional brain and how emotions are form, and whether we can find out if they are localised or not! the amygdala is one of my favourite parts of the brain! i find it so interesting how so many different brain structures can come together and form something so complex as emotions!

there are basic categories of emotion - joy/sadness, affection/disgust, anger/fear, expectation/ surprise. any other emotions are mixtures of these eight basic emotions. these eight basic emotions are also the 'middle ground' and can have lower and higher intensties. but it also comes back to these eight

neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to change and remodel itself over time, usually to make up for lost functions. it is still quite a new concept and is frequently being studied!!

there is a brain imaging technique called the brainbow! it can trace individual neural pathway and the image lights up in all different colours like a rainbow! it's very pretty!

psychedelic drugs could potentially have so many uses in modern medicine, but they're not studied enough due to the stigma around them, and their illegality. it's a shame because they could potentially be used to treat all sorts of mental disorders