Women and men can feel changes in their brains right after the pregnancy period starts.In male bodies: The testosterone level decreases, making them more caring.In female bodies: Prolactin provokes the desire for nesting.For mothers: These changes are permanent. The bond between a child and its mother is a biological necessity for survival, prompted by oxytocin (the love hormone).

Brains During Pregnancy

Even though many feminists claim that gender is a social construct, numerous studies show that a baby determines its gender, sexual orientation, and the extent of aggression before birth.It's more likely to be caused genetically rather than by the influence of the outer world.

Gender & Sexual Orientation

What does it mean to be in a coma?A coma results from brain damage and makes a patient unresponsive to external stimulations.Doctors often say, "A coma patient is like a vegetable." They are still alive, but their brain is dead.

Coma

People often believe that our feelings, desires, and love are in our hearts.However, they are wrong!Your personality, with its fears, dreams, ambitions, and passions, is based on your brain, while the heart only pumps blood to keep your body functioning.

Love is In Our Brain, not the Heart

Young Picasso could barely read and write.Einstein spoke slower than others.Daniel Tammet knows by heart PI to 22 514 decimal places.These brain disorders are genetic, and numerous reasons can cause them.

Brain Disorders

The brain controls us and defines our behavior.It's responsible not only for thinking, learning, and mental abilities; the brain reacts to every tiny stimulus inside the body and in the outer world.

Brain

95% of Americans believe in God.This belief is also fully processed in our brains.Our family and environment left information in the brain during the early years, and we adjusted to it the same way as a mother tongue.Richard Dawkins (a famous evolutionary biologist) claims that kids are affected by their religious parents because they can't think critically.

Religion

If life is a gradual development process, then Alzheimer's is a disease that causes a reverse: a person slowly loses the ability to live normally and care for themselves.Moreover, step by step, they lose their personality.The first symptoms include loss of memory or inappropriate behavior.How to prevent Alzheimer's?You can minimize your chances by maximizing brain activity, such as:<ul><li>Speaking foreign languages.</li><li>Obtaining an education.</li><li>Working a challenging job.</li><li>Stimulating your thinking and physical activities.</li></ul>

Alzheimer

The mother's habits and the environment are crucial for the baby's development.The bad habits cause damage to the baby's brain, as they may lead to depression or schizophrenia.Dieting and fasting are as harmful to a baby as drinking alcohol and smoking, as they may lead to brain disorders.

Habits & Environment

In contrast to coma, locked-in syndrome means that the patient's brain is still working and conscious of itself but completely paralyzed.In most cases, they can only move with their eyes, and that's the method of communication for them.

Locked-in Syndrome

The brain is the very essence of our personality and abilities. Unraveling the brain will help us understand the basis of human behavior and actions.

A vivid account of what makes us human.   Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine our potential, our limitations, and our desires, with each chapter serving as an eye-opening window on a different stage of brain development: the gender differences that develop in the embryonic brain, what goes on in the heads of adolescents, how parenthood permanently changes the brain.   Moving beyond pure biological understanding, Swaab presents a controversial and multilayered ethical argument surrounding the brain. Far from possessing true free will, Swaab argues, we have very little control over our everyday decisions, or who we will become, because our brains predetermine everything about us, long before we are born, from our moral character to our religious leanings to whom we fall in love with. And he challenges many of our prevailing assumptions about what makes us human, decoding the intricate “moral networks” that allow us to experience emotion, revealing maternal instinct to be the result of hormonal changes in the pregnant brain, and exploring the way that religious “imprinting” shapes the brain during childhood. Rife with memorable case studies, We Are Our Brains is already a bestselling international phenomenon. It aims to demystify the chemical and genetic workings of our most mysterious organ, in the process helping us to see who we are through an entirely new lens.   Did you know?   • The father’s brain is affected in pregnancy as well as the mother’s. • The withdrawal symptoms we experience at the end of a love affair mirror chemical addiction. • Growing up bilingual reduces the likelihood of Alzheimer’s. • Parental religion is imprinted on our brains during early development, much as our native language is. Praise for We Are Our Brains   “Swaab’s ‘neurobiography’ is witty, opinionated, passionate, and, above all, cerebral.”—Booklist (starred review)   “A fascinating survey . . . Swaab employs both personal and scientific observation in near-equal measure.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “A cogent, provocative account of how twenty-first-century ‘neuroculture’ has the potential to effect profound medical and social change.”—Kirkus Reviews

Habits & Environment

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