15 brain nuts of nephrophysiologist Natalia Bekhtereva

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The granddaughter of the world famous physiologist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist Vladimir Bekhterev, a world-renowned neurophysiologist, head of the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Natalya Bekhtereva believed that the human brain is a living being in our body.

She always wanted to look beyond the border, beyond, to visit where no one had ever been, she wanted to understand what makes a person - a person. And it seems she succeeded. Details in her quotes.

1. The factor that most often and significantly affects the state of the brain of a healthy person is emotions.

2. In case of emotional disorders, walks, various kinds of physical activity are very good. What can swimming, movement in water do to a person! After water procedures, you just become a different person.

3. A well-mannered balance of emotions, reasonable pride and resilience are the most important conditions for the full realization of talent.

4. If people were healthy and, let's say, would be less often depressed or overexcited by problems, the creative potential of humanity would increase significantly. Especially now, in the phase of growing information flow.

5. They say that Julius Caesar could simultaneously deal with several things. When they want to impressively assess the intelligence of a person, they often recall this "historical legend" - and most often without the name of the hero (Julius Caesar) they say: X (Y, Z) can simultaneously listen, write, speak. For some reason, I did not believe in this option, in its literal sense.

And it seemed to me that a kind of workaround is being used here - there is a quick switch from one activity to another with minimal loss of information and keeping the leading line in memory in all three situations. And, as I think now, not very "exciting", not very emotionally significant. If at least one of the "cases" turns out to be dominant, the whole system will break down in its favor.

6. I often think of the brain as if it were a separate organism, as if "a being in a being." The brain protects itself from the flurry of negative emotions not taking over it entirely. When I realized this, I felt as if I had found a pearl.

7. Another mystery of the brain is dreams. The biggest mystery to me is the very fact that we are sleeping. Could the brain arrange itself so as not to sleep? I think yes. For example, dolphins sleep by turns of the left and right hemispheres …

How can you explain "dreams with a continuation" and similar oddities? Let's say that this is not the first time you dream of some very good, but unfamiliar place - for example, a city. Most likely, “fairytale cities” of dreams are formed in the brain under the influence of books, movies, and become, as it were, a permanent place of dreams. We are drawn to something not yet tested, but very good …

Or prophetic dreams - are they receiving information from the outside, foreseeing the future, or random coincidences?.. I myself two weeks "before the event" with all the details saw the death of my mother in a dream.

8. I always wanted to look beyond the border, beyond, to visit where no one has ever been, I wanted to understand what makes a person - a person.

9. By the way, did you know that you have an error detector constantly working in your brain? He reminds - "you did not turn off the light in the bathroom", draws your attention to the incorrect expression "blue tape" and invites other parts of the brain to analyze it, the tape is "blue", but what lies behind the mistake - irony, ignorance or carelessness of someone What quick speech that betrays excitement?

You are a person, you need to know and understand not one, but many plans.

10. It turns out that when someone says “after all that I have experienced, I have become completely different,” he is absolutely right - all the work of his brain has been rearranged, even some centers have moved.

We see how people think, how individual active cells are flashing with lights, but have not yet deciphered the thinking code and are not able to read what you are thinking from the picture on the screen. Maybe we will never decipher.

11. I admit that thought exists separately from the brain, and he only catches it from space and reads it out. We see a lot that we are unable to explain. I met with Vanga - she read the past, saw the future. According to the data of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the number of its predictions come true is 80%. How did she do it?

12. It is customary to say that only 5-7% of our brain cells are involved. Personally, on the basis of my research, I tend to believe that for a creatively thinking intelligent person, almost 100% work - but not at once, but like the lights of a Christmas tree garland - in turn, in groups, in patterns.

13. I spoke, lectured, did a tremendous organizational work, but did not live. Until I had another super task - a report that allowed me to assess how much has been done in the past and showed that there is sense in the future.

Without a super task, human existence is meaningless. Animals are born, give life to new generations, then the function of reproduction fades away, and death occurs.

And we - we do not die as long as we have a goal - to wait for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, write a book, see the world, look into the Looking Glass … Old age does not exist, and nothing ends until you yourself want it.

14. Years carry away everything external, and with age, the human soul is gradually freed from the covers and appears in its original form. There is no longer any need to be liked, to play any games. You can be yourself, say what you think and how you feel.

Finally, you realize that happiness is something that you can share with others right now and now, something tiny, fragile and terribly important - salmon on Thursdays, which the visiting housekeeper loves to feast on so much. Best wool cut for a dear friend. Warm autograph on the presented book. Or ten of the most delicious cakes from a French pastry shop.

15. We are struggling with life, we think: we’ll get a bonus, buy an apartment, a car, win a position - we’ll be happy! And something else will be remembered forever - how a young and handsome dad is playing the old waltz "Autumn Dream" on the piano, and you are spinning, spinning to the music, like a leaf in the wind …

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