10-07-2015, 02:21 PM
(10-07-2015, 03:36 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: Did you read that? She dismisses any kind of electrical waves from the brain because "brainwaves are a nontechnical term". There were multiple times in that paper where she would show that there is "brainwaves", but dismiss it because she wanted to.
brain·wave
ˈbrānˌwāv/
noun
an electrical impulse in the brain.
She doesn't dismiss any kind of electrical waves from the brain, she dismisses the term "brainwaves" as a layman's term which it is (look it up), but medical professionals use layman's terms to explain information to patient so they understand. I think her attitude toward a "nontechnical term" is a little petty and obviously undermines her credibility to a layman such as yourself.
Quote:you should go back and look at my post, so you can see what you left out.
Oh, the stuff you edited in after I quoted you? It's not my job to go back and check to see if you edited your remark after I quoted you.
Quote:BTW there is another book by Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D. called "Fetal brain & cognitive development" that says that there is brain activity about ~7 weeks after conception. So I was wrong by 1 week according to Dr Rhawn Joseph.
BTW, you obviously haven't read Dr. Rhawn Joseph's book called "Fetal brain & cognitive development" because it isn't a book, it is an article. He mentioned waves twice and neither time in reference to brain waves.
http://brainmind.com/FetalBrainDevelopment.html
He explains the brainstem begins to develop around the 6th-7th week of gestation (which is the 8th to 9th week of pregnancy). He continues "the behavior of the fetus and newborn is likely a reflection of reflexive brainstem activities which are produced in the absence of forebrain-mediated affective or cognitive processing, i.e. thinking, reasoning, understanding, or true emotionality" . . . "these same reflexive and rhythmic activities are demonstrated by anencephalic infants who may possess only a brainstem, i.e. respiration, sleeping, waking, crying, leg kicking, rudimentary smiling, and even rapid eye movements while sleeping."
Here's some information on brain anatomy which I'm sure you will ignore . . . http://www.agenthuman.com/product/intro_brain_anatomy.html
Quote:The Brain Stem
Pretty much everyone knows that the brain stem connects the spinal cord to the brain proper. It deals with highly instinctive survival functions including breathing, digestion, heart rate, and blood pressure; and controls many reflex motor responses. The brain stem includes the reticular formation, which is essential to consciousness and plays a major role in arousal (being awake and alert). The brain stem receives many types of sensory input and 'pre-processes' it before sending it on to higher parts of the human brain. The top section of the brain-stem is called the pons (bridge).
A primitive brain stem had already evolved about 600 million years ago in our ancestors the Protostomes (modern-day example, the ragworm, see Chapter One), and their own probable ancestor the Acoeli (flatworms), which are assumed to have had a fairly undifferentiated ganglion (collection of neural cells) in the head of the animal, and are the first known bilaterally symmetrical animal, although still invertebrate.
By about 550 million years ago, the direct line of our ancestors was represented by the sea squirt (Ascidia), which during its youth (later on it attaches itself to a rock for life and 'eats its brain') has a notochord (primitive backbone) supporting a spinal nerve column and a ganglion at the head which controls movement and is connected to a light-sensing organ. 'Controls movement' sounds more like the eventual function of the cortex, if somehow controlled by sensory input rather than just as a reflex action, but this animal has (had) no recognizable cortex as such (Goodbody, 1974).
So brainstem activity is on par with the brain activity of a flat worm.
Here is information regarding anencephaly . . . http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/anencephaly.html
Quote:Anencephaly happens if the upper part of the neural tube does not close all the way. This often results in a baby being born without the front part of the brain (forebrain) and the thinking and coordinating part of the brain (cerebrum). The remaining parts of the brain are often not covered by bone or skin.
Almost all babies born with anencephaly will die shortly after birth. CDC estimates that each year, about 1 in every 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with anencephaly.1(http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/anencephaly.html#ref)
Brainstem activity is comparable to a severe birth defect which almost always incompatible with life in humans.
Long story short, don't believe the hype.
