BRAIN

(See also Cerebral Palsy; Mind; Nervous System; Stroke)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

abnormalities in the mentally ill: g86 9/8 5-7

activity during sleep: w96 10/1 3-4

animal:

arctic ground squirrel: ijwwd article 24; g 7/13 16

area for balance: g96 3/22 25

area for smells: g88 7/22 29

area inhibiting risk-taking: g05 10/8 29

areas for association: g00 10/8 11

areas for hands: g88 6/8 5

areas for language: g99 5/8 9; ct 55-60; g98 2/22 28-29; g93 1/22 29

deaf people when using sign language: g01 8/8 28

Mandarin Chinese: g04 2/8 28

benefit of mental exercise: w10 5/15 22; g01 5/22 28; g99 5/8 10-11; g96 12/8 29; g93 1/8 29; g93 12/22 28

blood-brain barrier: g 4/14 11

blood supply: g88 6/8 12

cancer:

comments of elder: w05 11/1 19

experience of victim: ijwyp article 17

capability: w20.05 22-23; w94 2/1 9; w89 10/15 15; g88 6/8 9-12

flexibility: ct 52-54

interpreting senses: g 5/11 6-7

language: g88 6/8 11

learning: g88 6/8 10-11

memory: w20.05 23; g88 6/8 10

capacity: w22.12 3-4; g 8/13 8; g 12/07 6; g04 8/8 11-12; ct 62; g98 6/22 9; g95 10/22 8; g89 2/8 27, 31; g88 6/8 10-11; w86 4/1 16-17; tp 101-102

amount used during lifetime: ct 62; g95 10/22 8

cerebral cortex: g99 5/8 3-4; ct 54, 57

angular gyrus and out-of-body experiences: g03 6/8 29

Broca’s area: ct 58-59

frontal lobe: ct 54-55

motor cortex: ct 55-58

Wernicke’s area: ct 59-60

communication with digestive system: g17.3 10-11

complexity: cl 173; g88 6/8 10; g86 2/22 4-5

consciousness: g 12/09 8; ct 63-72

contrast to computers: la 16-17; w99 6/15 17; g99 5/8 6; ct 50-53, 63-64; g90 5/22 31; g88 6/8 9, 11; g88 7/8 13-15

development: g87 5/22 3-4, 7

before birth: g 9/08 4; g92 1/22 14-16; g87 5/22 3; w86 4/1 17; g86 2/22 6

between 15 and 24 months: g87 11/22 27

effect of lack of physical affection: g86 9/22 4-5

effect of parental speech: w98 4/15 32

first year: w86 4/1 17

interconnections: g17.4 13

synapses: w13 8/15 16; g04 10/22 5-6; g87 5/22 3

diagrams: g00 2/8 30; g99 5/8 4; ct 56; g97 5/8 16-17

difference between children and adults: w88 11/1 18

discussion: w20.05 22-24; g99 5/8 3-9; g88 6/8 9-12; g86 2/22 4-6

effect of—

AIDS virus: g88 5/22 29-30

alcohol: g05 10/8 6-7; g94 12/8 29

cooling body after heart attack: g02 11/8 28

dietary fat: g01 11/8 29; g94 12/8 29

doing many things at once: g04 10/22 28

high blood pressure: g96 8/22 28

lying: g03 2/22 29

mental inactivity: g93 6/8 29; g93 12/22 28

physical exercise: g86 10/8 30

sleep loss: g91 1/8 29

smoking marijuana: yp 276

evidence of Creator: g 4/14 11; g 2/10 24-25; pc 11; g04 8/8 11-12; dg 6-7; la 16-17; g00 10/8 11; ct 50-66; g97 5/8 4, 15; pr 9-10; rs 86; w86 4/1 16-17; g86 2/22 4-6

experiences:

brain pathologist: g17.4 12-13

glial cells: g99 5/8 6

“golden bowl” (Ec 12:6): it-1 983, 1050; it-2 1154; w99 11/15 17

hemorrhage:

experience of victim: ijwyp article 17

how intensity is sensed: g88 6/8 12

how memories are stored: g04 8/8 11; g99 5/8 7-8

hypothalamus: g92 4/22 20

learning:

moral lessons: w20.05 23

mammalian diving reflex:

circulation maintained in brain during drowning: g86 7/22 29

neurons: g17.4 13; g99 5/8 3, 6, 8; ct 50, 182; g88 6/8 10-11

diagrams: g97 5/8 16-17

interconnections (synapses): ct 182; g97 5/8 4, 15; g95 10/22 7-8; g88 6/8 10-11; g87 5/22 3; g86 2/22 4

new, in adulthood: g00 9/8 29; g00 10/22 28; g99 7/22 9

number: g97 5/8 4; g95 10/22 7; g86 2/22 4

signal transmission: g88 6/8 10; g86 2/22 5; g86 9/8 7

total length of dendrites: g86 2/22 5

older people: g99 7/22 9; ct 53

pituitary gland: g92 4/22 19-20

role in hearing: g 3/10 3; g97 9/22 22

role in vision: g99 5/8 5-6; g88 6/8 8

size: g88 6/8 3; g86 2/22 4

compared with animals’: g88 6/8 11

substantia nigra: g88 1/8 15

superiority of human: ct 54-62, 65-66; g88 6/8 11

surgery:

first-person account “Faith Helped Me Face Brain Surgery”: g90 4/22 21-24

first-person account “My Fight to Live”: g92 4/22 21-24

Gamma Knife (stereotactic radiosurgery): g98 2/22 20-21; w96 3/15 31; g91 4/8 28

implants of fetal tissue for Parkinson’s disease: g88 4/8 29

meningioma removed without use of blood: w96 3/15 31

thalamus:

role in sleep: g87 5/22 30

weight: g88 6/8 3; g86 2/22 4

Quotations

a whole universe inside the skull: g89 2/8 31

capable of handling any load of learning and memory: rs 247; tp 102

capacity may be infinite: g95 10/22 8

capacity seems to expand further towards infinity: g04 8/8 11

exceeds by far the capacity of the most powerful computers: pr 9

magnificently patterned, orderly and fantastically complex: pr 9

most complex thing discovered in our universe: w99 4/15 6; g96 4/8 14; g95 10/22 8

most marvelous organ in the known universe: g86 2/22 6

most remarkable phenomenon in the biological universe: ct 62; g86 2/22 5

nowhere in universe anything remotely resembling it: w99 4/15 6; g95 10/22 8

program is a meaningless term without a programmer: g86 2/22 6

twenty million volumes: w02 6/1 5; ct 62; g95 10/22 8; rs 247