Tag: Brain

The Emerging Skill Gap

It’s quite established at this point that AI (artificial intelligence) will, in some shape or form, displace a tremendous number of jobs. While many assume that the jobs may just be the “low hanging fruit” of employment (sorry to say), the reality is that any data-in, data-out jobs are under risk as well. Employment skills […]

Is Your Brain in a Healthy Balance?

A healthy body of evidence now suggests that this homeostasis exists in our brains with respect to replenishing cellular populations. Interestingly, those who suffer from chronic depression have a reduced rate of cellular turnover when compared to those with normal mood. Things we can do that relate to increasing neurogenesis but also strengthening synaptic connections […]

A Little Interesting Fact to Share With Friends

Neuroscience in Action, Literally Have you ever hit your thumb while hammering and yelled Son of a $@%*! I have (But I have yelled worse than that…) And I instantly grabbed my thumb to squeeze onto it. But why is that my instinct? Why would I ‘grab’ the thing thats damaged? It’s because the nervous […]

Myelin

Everybody Needs Protection An interesting photo here showing neurone cells in your brain (seen in blue) and they are lined by myelin (seen in green). This was taken from a cell culture & specifically stained to highlight the different cell types. In red are astrocytes, different type of central nervous system cells. Neurone cells convey […]