Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The slight differences in water composition within the brain, for example, lets doctors easily differentiate the part of the brain housing the brain cells, called neurons, from the neighboring fiber tracks connecting those neurons with one another. And seeing a tumor or an abnormal collection of blood vessels is easy with MRI. In contrast, functional magnetic resonance imaging moves past anatomy; it can localize the part of the brain responsible for different bodily functions or different feeling states. |
Andreas Moritz
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 If a large number of neurons of the brain no longer receive enough nourishment, there is atrophy of neural tissue, which leads to dementia or Alzheimer's disease. When a certain class of neurons that are responsible for producing the brain hormone and neurotransmitter dopamine suffer malnourishment, Parkinson's disease results. Repeated exposure to certain environmental or internally produced toxins can also be responsible. |
Gregg Braden
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 While the first studies were done with monkeys, new research shows that humans have what is described as an even "more elaborate" system of mirror neurons.7 And it appears that they're activated in two different yet related types of circumstances:
1. First, they become active when we perform a particular action, such as walking on a balance beam.
2. Second, our mirror neurons become active when we watch someone else doing something that excites us. In other words, these cells appear to give us the ability to make what we see in others real within us. |
| This may sound like a silly example (especially if you're not into wrestling), but mirror neurons are also being studied in an effort to understand why a few violent fans at a soccer match can begin a scuffle that spreads until the situation becomes a full-blown riot. It all points back to the way we respond when we see someone else doing something with which we identify or to which we aspire. This is what makes mirror neurons so powerful in our discussion of miracles. |
Sue Palmer
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 But neuroscientists have also shown that the overwhelming majority of connections between neurons in the human brain, and the chemicals that enable those connections, are created during childhood, and are affected by children's experiences.
The eminent neuroscientist Susan Greenfield once wrote that there are as many neurons in a human brain as there are trees in the Amazonian rainforest, and as many connections between those neurons as there are leaves on those trees. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| The slight differences in water composition within the brain, for example, lets doctors easily differentiate the part of the brain housing the brain cells, called neurons, from the neighboring fiber tracks connecting those neurons with one another. And seeing a tumor or an abnormal collection of blood vessels is easy with MRI. In contrast, functional magnetic resonance imaging moves past anatomy; it can localize the part of the brain responsible for different bodily functions or different feeling states. |
Sue Palmer
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| The eminent neuroscientist Susan Greenfield once wrote that there are as many neurons in a human brain as there are trees in the Amazonian rainforest, and as many connections between those neurons as there are leaves on those trees. To continue the analogy, the chemicals helping the neurons connect are like the sunshine, water, air and earth of the Amazonian forest. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 BLUEBERRIES KEEP YOUR MEMORY SHARP
"Old neurons are kind of like old married couples," Joseph says. "They don't talk to each other so much any more." Memory goes down, and the "processing" necessary for coordination and balance will tend to decline. The technical term for this communication is "signaling," and special compounds in blueberries called polyphenols actually "turn on" the signals. "Not only can you get one neuron to talk to another more efficiently, but you can actually enable the brain to grow new neurons," Joseph explained in an interview. |
| They actually help neurons in the brain communicate with one another more effectively.
BLUEBERRIES KEEP YOUR MEMORY SHARP
"Old neurons are kind of like old married couples," Joseph says. "They don't talk to each other so much any more." Memory goes down, and the "processing" necessary for coordination and balance will tend to decline. The technical term for this communication is "signaling," and special compounds in blueberries called polyphenols actually "turn on" the signals. |
Sue Palmer
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| The eminent neuroscientist Susan Greenfield once wrote that there are as many neurons in a human brain as there are trees in the Amazonian rainforest, and as many connections between those neurons as there are leaves on those trees. To continue the analogy, the chemicals helping the neurons connect are like the sunshine, water, air and earth of the Amazonian forest. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Whereas conventional brain researchers describe consciousness as arising from the electrochemical processes that occur across synapses and being dependent on neurons, biophysics researchers postulate that microtubules may actually be the structures from which consciousness, in whole or in part, arises, for within them occurs the strange process of quantum tunneling.16 This is a well-verified process in physics in which particles, such as electrons, can travel from one place (inside the microtubules) to another (outside the microtubules) without having to travel the distance in between! |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 An increase of dopamine and serotonin by activation of neurons results in central nervous system effects (Fachinfo Antares 120, 1996).
Cerebrovascular Effects: The Kava pyrones methysticin and dihydromethysticin decreased infarct size and protected mouse and rat brains from damage after middle cerebral artery occlusion. The artery was occluded and either 150 mg Kava extract orally or 10 to 30 mg methysticin and dihydromethysticin were given intraperitoneally (Backhauss & Krieglstein, 1992; Backhauss & Krieglstein, 1992a). |
| Other constituents of Ginkgo biloba may protect neurons by acting as oxygen radical scavengers. Ginkgo, acting on the hepatic cytochrome P-450 enzyme system, may also attenuate oxygen-free radical formation and the release of superoxide anions. Ginkgo may also increase the number of H(3)rauwolscine binding sites in the hippocampus as seen in aged rats. This effect could compensate for the declining number of alpha-adrenoreceptors, characteristic of aging. Ginkgo also inhibited catechol-O-methyl transferase and enhanced the vasoregulatory effect of catecholamines (Logani et al, 2000). |
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Fusco BM & Giacovazzo M. Peppers and pain: the promise of capsaicin. Drugs; 53(6):909-914. 1997
Gagnier JJ, van Tulder M, Berman B, et al. Herbal medicine for low back pain (Review). Cochrane Database of Syst Rev 2: CD004504, Apr 19, 2006.
Graham DY, Anderson SY, Lang T et al. Garlic or jalapeno peppers for treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection. Am J Gastroenterol May; 94(5):1200-1202. 1999
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| The compound increases the content of ATP by 50-150% in hypothalamic neurons. In addition, third ventricle (i.e.v.) administration of P57, which reduces subsequent 24-h food intake by 40-60%, also increases ATP content in hypothalamic slice punches removed at 24 h following the i.e.v. injections. In related studies, in pair fed rats fed a low-calorie diet for 4 days, the content of ATP in the hypothalami of control i.e.v. injected animals fell by 30-50%, which was blocked by i.e.v. injections of P57AS3. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 For instance, one group of rats was treated with the transplanted motor neuron cells with all the growth factors, but they were not given the signposts that told the motor neurons where to go. Other groups lacked a different single, essential ingredient from the recipe as well.
In order to ensure accurate findings, Kerr had each paralyzed rat coded with a different number so that even he would not know which rats had been treated with which protocols. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 The neurons for NE are located in a part of the brain stem called the locus coeruleus, from which the NE neurons branch out to touch as many as half of all the cells in the brain (probably several billion) in the cerebral cortex.
When an individual experiences anxiety or panic, NE is released from the locus coeruleus and affects a part of the brain known as the nucleus accumbens, leading to feelings of anxiety and panic. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| For example, the individual ice crystals in a raging snowstorm come together to form a snowflake, or the electrical and chemical impulses of millions of neurons coalesce into a thought. Mathematician Ian Stewart marveled that nature's patterns "emerge from an ocean of complexity like Botticelli's Venus from her half shell—unheralded, transcending their origins."27 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert B. Laughlin explained other qualities of this phenomenon that is so ubiquitous in nature and so fundamental to life: "Emergence means complex organizational structures growing out of simple rules. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Evaluation of beta-amyloid peptide 25-35 on calcium homeostasis in cultured rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. Brain Res. 939, 65-75.
261. Stutzmann, G. E., Smith, I., Caccamo, A., Oddo, S., Laferla, F. M., and Parker, I. (2006). Enhanced ryanodine receptor recruitment contributes to Ca2+ disruptions in young, adult, and aged Alzheimer's disease mice. J. Neurosci. 26, 5180-5189.
262. O'Neill, C, Cowburn, R. F., Bonkale, W. L., Ohm, T. G., Fastbom, J., Carmody, M., and Kelliher, M. (2001). |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| In fact, every minute millions of cells in your body will each deplete about 500 million ATP molecules, and an equal number of new ATP molecules will be created to rush into those cells to replace them. neurons are firing, releasing cascades of neurotransmitters, which are fitting like keys into the receptor locks on the surface of cells. |
| Energetic Terrain 13
Energetic Terrain 13 is linked bioenergetically to a wide array of cells, tissues, organs, and other aspects of the body, including the blood, large bowel, chest cavity, skin, lungs, nasal cavity, pancreas, bones, and various kinds of neurons. It bioenergetically correlates to microbes including yeast, molds, fungi, and protozoa, including amoebas. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| This activation stimulates POMC neurons producing melanocortins that activate melanocortin 4 receptors (MC4R) in the paraventricular and ventromedial nuclei, resulting in satiety. Melanocortin 3 receptor (MC3R) is an autoregulator of the POMC system. MC3R also affects obesity independently of its autoregulation of the POMC system, but whether it acts through the same pathway as MC4R is not known. SIM1 is essential for development of the paraventricular nucleus. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| ENERGETIC STAR 3: NERVE FUNCTION
Bioenergetically, this Star links robustly to the central nervous system, to neurotransmitters of all kinds, and to specific aspects of the nerves such as axons, neurons, and dendrites. Because many types of toxins, but especially environmental toxins, may adversely affect nerve function, this Star has a strong bioenergetic correlation to heavy metals, such as lead, cadmium, and mercury. |
Ron Garner
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 They cause brain damage by exciting neurons to such a degree that various neurological malfunctions develop. Disorders can include headaches, seizures, hypoglycemia, strokes, tumors, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's dementia, Huntington's disease, and Lou Gehrig's disease (als). An in-depth analysis and explanation of the dangers of food additives and their effects can be found in Dr. Russell Blaylock's book Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills.
Microwave Ovens
Foods that have been subjected to microwave radiation are dangerous to our health. |
| They cross the blood brain barrier and deteriorate the neurons of the brain. Methanol (wood alcohol) in aspartame is released when temperature exceeds 86°f (30°c), and converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, both of which are potent poisons. When aspartame is ingested, this always happens because normal body temperature is 9-8.6°f (37°c).
Common table salt, sodium chloride, is salt that has been refined, processed, and depleted of its minerals. It is toxic and addictive to the body. Refined salt is a chemical compound that contains no food value. It cannot be digested or assimilated. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| Motor neurons are part of Energetic Integrator 7. Also, although your sensory nerves are part of Energetic Integrator 1, the sense organs themselves (i.e., your eyes, nose, tongue, skin, and so on) are found in othet Integrators. The nerves to the large bowel are part of Energetic Integrator 1, but the rectum, anus, and sigmoid colon are part of the information pathway of Integrator 6. The bronchial membranes are found in Integrator 1, but parts of the bronchial system are also part of Integrator 11. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| The neurons for NE are located in a part of the brain stem called the locus coeruleus, from which the NE neurons branch out to touch as many as half of all the cells in the brain (probably several billion) in the cerebral cortex.
When an individual experiences anxiety or panic, NE is released from the locus coeruleus and affects a part of the brain known as the nucleus accumbens, leading to feelings of anxiety and panic. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 The new stem cells that are born every day don't turn into new neurons, so there's a shortage of building material to reroute signals and break the cycle.
Monica Starkman at the University of Michigan studies Cush-ing's syndrome, an endocrine dysfunction in which the body is continually flooded with Cortisol. The scientific name for the disorder speaks volumes: hypercortisolism. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Neuroscientist John Olney, who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, says that aspartic acid is an excitotoxin that stimulates neurons into hyperactivity until they exhaust and die.
Psychiatrist Ralph G. Walton, medical director of Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, had to abruptly stop his own human clinical trial on aspartame when some of the subjects had serious reactions. One participant, the hospital's administrator, suffered a detached retina and went blind in one eye. Another had bleeding of the eye and others reported being poisoned. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Phosphatidylserine plays a critical role in the normal functioning of the cell membranes of neurons. It also helps the hypothalamus regulate the amount of Cortisol produced by the adrenals. This makes it a useful supplement for those who cannot sleep because of high Cortisol levels, usually caused by stress. Cortisol is usually at high levels in the morning, for wakefulness, but in stressed individuals it may be high at night and prevent sleeping. |
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