http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/08/28/brain-school/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Sun, 20 May 2012 14:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/08/28/brain-school/#comment-13388 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:16:52 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1028#comment-13388 When it comes to intelligence, size matters. Larger brains have more neurons to work with but it is not quite that straight forward. Elephants and whales have large brains and aren’t nearly as intelligent as humans. Neanderthals also had large brains. Size only accounts for so much because most of the brain is made of structural cells, called glial cells, and larger brains simply have larger nerve and structural cells. Regardless of size all people have roughly the same neurons in the brain. Physical anthropologists attribute the extra large size of the human brain and henece intelligence to enhanced cooling capacity called the “radiator theory” and increased blood flow as a result of upright posture. Evolution, however, fails to explain human intelligence which far exceeds the capacity of the brain. Conversely, upright posture also predisposes humans to neurodegenerative diseases of the brain and cord, which can affect intelligence. Please visit my website at http://uprightdoc.com for further informaton.

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/08/28/brain-school/#comment-9852 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:08:50 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1028#comment-9852 Pinky and the Brain teach us about the parts of the brain:

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/08/28/brain-school/#comment-4813 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:56:36 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1028#comment-4813 [...] A great topic, of course! Maybe a tad ambitious (!), but just the sort of question you want kids to ask. So I was excited to show off my Internet skills and get him hooked into some sites to help explain the brain to a growing boy. Paul outlined a bunch of them in his post Brain School. [...]

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/08/28/brain-school/#comment-3061 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:39:00 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1028#comment-3061 Found this Great website with loads of links too:
http://www.fizyka.umk.pl/~duch/neural.html

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/08/28/brain-school/#comment-2970 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:55:23 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1028#comment-2970 Pleease consider the Brain Injury News and Informaation Blog at http://www.braininjury.blogs.com as an adddition to your list. The Brain Injury News and Information Blog is authored by nationally recognized brain injury attorney, Michael V. Kaplen, three term past president of the Brain Injury Association of New York State and past chair of the American Association for Justice, Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group. You can read more about his brain injury legal practice at http://www.brainlaw.com

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