0
Brain
The center of our nervous system and daily thoughts, the brain is a complex, magnificent organ. Ask questions about parts of the brain and their functions here.
2,537 Questions
Can a brain dead person produce tears?
Brain dead person can produce tears, if his reflex arc related to tears is intact. Anything irritating to eyes will produce the tears in the eyes of such person.
What would happen if 1 plus 1 were not equal to 2?
"2" means "1 more than 1." So the only way that 1+1 would not equal 2 would be if "1" or "2" were defined in a way other than as we know them. For example, if "2" were defined as "2 more than 1", that is, 3, then 1+1=3, not 2, by definition. But then we would choose another symbol for "1 more than 1," which would really be 2, no matter what we called it. The important thing in mathematics is that all who communicate using a number set agree on each definition. But if you could suddenly, magically change the meaning of 2 to something else, without defining a new "1 more than 1" and obtaining everyone's agreement, we would be instantly beset by universal inconsistency. Mathematics would become useless. [Others might here contribute examples of what would go wrong.] Interesting note: In the binary number system, used internally by computers, there is no "2", only "0" and "1". In binary arithmetic, 1+1=10, where the 0 is in the 1s place and the 1 is in the 2s place. (1+1 is still 1 more than 1, but it is represented as "10".)
Can you help me - I am stuck on this brain teaser?
Here is the question in question (i couldn't post is as part of the actual question above cos the URL was too long for the server):
It was good to have the house full of people again; it had been far too quiet since the last of his seven daughters had left for college--seven daughters with seven different majors at seven different schools. About the only thing they had in common was that they were each dating an athlete, although none of them played the same sport--one was even on his school's fencing team. He was surprised all the boyfriends had come for Christmas dinner, but he supposed that since he was picking up the tab for the airfare, that a free trip to Hawaii in the winter had something to do with it. Each of his first three daughters had gone to Ivy League schools--one even to his alma mater at Harvard; his next two ended up at the University of California, at Los Angeles and Berkeley; and his two youngest got accepted to schools abroad--the University of Tokyo had been a bit of a surprise. Next year, after seven straight years--and for the first time this millennium--he wouldn't be attending a high-school graduation.
"Honey, we're ready to eat. Can you get Hank, Ian, James and Kyle? They're in the backyard playing football. The other boys wanted to test themselves against the star quarterback," his wife called from the dining room.
The math major said, "I'll get them Dad!"
As everyone filed into the dining room, the oldest sister was rehashing the whose-school-and-major-is-better argument with her younger sister about whether Yale or Princeton was a better school and whether history or philosophy was a more useful major. The argument was practically a Christmas tradition by now.
The table was arranged with the parents at the two ends and each of the couples seated across from each other with boys seated next to girls along each side. As usual, Angelina and Danica were sitting next to their parents. Curiously, all the athletes that used a ball in their sport were sitting on the same side of the table. Christie, Electra and Edward took their seats first.
Once everyone was seated the youngest coyly observed, "I see the biologist is sitting between the two fighters but I'm sitting between the two best passers at the table."
"You'd better not make any passes yourself!" Farrah icily replied. She hadn't forgiven her sister for stealing her boyfriend when they were in high school and was not happy to see her seated next to her boyfriend now.
"Lighten up, Farrah" the biology major joked. "He wasn't even that cute."
"He was adorable!" the youngest interjected.
"Everyone's entitled to their opinion," said Brooke. "Let's eat!"
The daughter in the middle seat stood up and said, "We have an announcement to make!" After a dramatic pause she screamed "we're getting married!" and flashed the new diamond ring on her finger. The youngest sister squealed with delight at the news. Her fiance joked to his future mother-in-law, "I think she said yes just so she can wear the monogrammed sweater you gave me for Christmas." The baseball player next to her asked her fiance, "Wow, what'd that rock set you back?"
"This calls for a toast!" roared Dad.
"Oh Honey, that's wonderful news!" Mom gushed. "I just happen to have some champagne right here. Lars, I know you don't drink alcohol, but would you mind pouring some champagne for Gabrielle next to you?" the mother asked, handing the bottle to Lars on her left. "Gabrielle, please pass the bottle around," she asked and then quickly added, "But no alcohol for my three babies, or anyone under 21 for that matter. Honey, there's a store downtown that's having a sale on wedding dresses. Will you have time to go look at some wedding dresses before you leave?"
"Sure Mom," her daughter answered. "We have a late flight out, so I can do that on the day we leave."
"Michael and I are celebrating New Years Eve at the Sheraton, Waikiki," one of the girls announced.
"What a coincidence," said the boy sitting next to her. "We're celebrating New Years at the Sheraton, Los Angeles. It's within walking distance of our apartment so we won't have to worry if we drink too much."
"That sounds like a better plan than we have. Somehow, just because my car holds a lot of people, I got roped into being the designated driver for the team" Danica said, looking pointedly at her boyfriend, who gestured to the boy from Princeton saying, "he gave me the idea!"
"Girls, your grandmother will be here on Sunday," the father announced. "She'd really like to see you all."
"Sorry Dad," the business major replied, "we have to leave tomorrow. There's a huge storm predicted to hit the Eastern United States this weekend and we need to get home before they close the airports. I noticed that each couple is leaving on a different day for six days after we leave."
"Sir, we're leaving before Sunday also, so we won't be able to make it either. I'm just glad we don't have to deal with that storm" said the wrestler.
The swimmer and water polo player announced their travel plans. One of them remarked that even though his girlfriend and he were departing for Oxford University two days earlier, both couples would get home on the same day.
The physics major said "I'll be here to see grandma, but unfortunately we're heading back to California before you go look at the wedding gowns."
"Well I'm glad you'll at least be here to see your grandma, but I wish you could stay longer" the dad said. "You know you're my favorite since you were my first to major in a physical science like me," he joked. "I have a tee time at the club on Monday, it's too bad you won't be here," the father remarked to the golfer. "Kyle's got a game next week but you don't," he said to the history major's boyfriend. "How about you join me on the links?"
"Sure!" the boyfriend replied enthusiastically.
"Since we're leaving the day after him, if you've got room for two more Dad, we just happened to bring our clubs" the second oldest said, winking at her boyfriend.
"It's a foursome then!" her dad said happily.
Ian grumbled, "Hank you lucky dog, I've wanted to play that course for years!"
The boyfriend of the political science major laughed, "I'd like to play there also, but Ian, at least I won't have to travel as far as you to get another opportunity."
---------
Identify the boyfriend and his sport, the school, and major for each daughter. Name the order that the daughters were born in and the day of the week that they leave to go home. What is the seating arrangement at the dinner table?
Bonus question: what year is it?
it is responsible for vial life functions such as breathing heartbeat and blood pressure it is the most simple part of the human brain
What parts of the brain control your voluntary and involuntary muscles?
The brainstem controls the involuntary muscles and the cerebellum controls the voluntary muscles.
A PET scan would be most useful for detecting brain areas that are most active as a person performs mathematical calculations.
Make sure you have the correct bulb. They all look alike but they are different. Make sure you put it in correctly, there's a tab and slot on the bulb and you have to give it a twist to lock it in.
Does the body still live after gunshot to the brain?
Depending on the location of the shot, and how far it penetrated into the brain would give you a variable on chances of living. For the most part, there is a low chance that a person would be living afterward, but exceptions do happen.
How many connections are there on a 92 Chevy silverado 1500 starter?
get under the truck on the passanger side. there will be two bolts conecting it to the block, remove them with out catching one in the face. pull it off, once out set the starter on the ground connect power to it with jumper cables. Don't for get to step on it. or secure it in some fashion. once it has power the solenold shound ingage if it dosent replace that. it could save you some money, there not hard to replace, but in some cases it is the same price as getting a new starter/and sloenold. so bargin shop. it might not hurt to get a heat shield as well.
oh, yeah, don't for get to diconect the batt.and it will probley not hurt to hook the wires up to the starter before reversing the process to reinstall.
What is wrong with the liberal brain?
The presumption that something is "wrong" with Liberals is incorrect. There is nothing wrong with having an opinion different than the one with you are accustomed. If there is a particular issue about liberal policy that a non-liberal finds confusing, such as a liberal's view on gun policy, a liberal's view on welfare, a liberal's view on the military, or a liberal's theory on economic policy, please ask that with a degree of specificity and neutrality. I.e. "How does a liberal justify universal healthcare?" or "Why do liberals want to restrict gun ownership rights when the Constitution requires them to not be infringed?"
Conservatives may find it difficult to believe, but Liberals do, generally, have a rational and complex thought pattern. Liberals find Conservatives, oftentimes, just as confusing an irrational as Conservatives find Liberals.
Can you die from holding in a sneeze?
Yes, you can die from holding in your sneeze, because your sneeze can go about 90 miles per hour and so if you do hold it in you can suffer from brain damage!
What role does the Holy Ghost play in your lives?
He is the third member of the Godhead. He is the Comforter, Testator, Revelator, Sanctifier, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit of Promise, Spirit of truth, Spirit of the Lord, and Messenger of the Father and the Son, and his companionship is the greatest gift that mortal man can enjoy. His mission is to perform all of the functions appertaining to the various name titles. He will bring comfort to the sick and lonely, testify of of the truthfulness of all things. He is the telephone link to our Father in heaven. A person may receive the Holy Ghost when there is a need, but to receive The Gift of the Holy Ghost one must have hands laid upon them by a man of God, and you will know that you have received it when you speak in other tongues as the spirit gives the utterance. After, and if the person remains faithful the Holy Ghost will always be available to them.
He is not the third member of the Godhead, There is no Trinity. The Godhead is One. Jesus, The Father and The Holy Ghost are all the same person, JESUS.
Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:"
Eph. 4:5-6 "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. One God, Father of All, above all, through all, and in you all."
1 Timothy 3:16 "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
What is the scientific term for a state of complete emptiness?
Perhaps "complete vacuum" or "hard vacuum" or the "vacuum of deep space" will suffice. Even in the vast "nothingness" between galaxies there is going to be an atom or two of hydrogen floating about. That's about as good as it gets. But if a state of complete emptiness is desired, a "perfect vacuum" is what the seeker may be looking for.
The part of the brain responsible for speech thought and memory is the .?
The cerebral cortex is responsible for speech thought and memory
Is a large area of encephalomalcia in the brain fatal What are the symptoms?
Encephalomalacia is basically a "softening" of the brain tissue as a result of an ischemia or infarction (stroke), degenerative changes, infection, craniocerebral trauma (by hitting your head hard), or other injury. It is not reparable but not usually fatal. Only supportive care will help. Be sure to be a "pest" and make the doctors explain this in plain old English.
Where is the brain located in the 1993 Honda accord wagon?
I believe it's under one of the front seats, if not then check behind the left and right side kick panels or behind the glovebox.
How do jealous men or women act and why does it exist?
some men act really violent while others act cool and try to ignore the situation (they keep them selves busy)
What is the diencephalon located?
The diencephalon is located in the interior brain below the corpus callosum (which connects the two hemispheres), the third ventricle, and fornix. It is made up of the thalamus and hypothalamus.
Is there a scientific term for a brain freeze?
Yes, there is a scientific term for a brain freeze. The term is "sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia".
Actually there is and it is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. You body is telling you to slow down whatever is causing this sensation.
Actually there is and it is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. You body is telling you to slow down whatever is causing this sensation.
Your brain works in 2 ways: slow and fast. the brain has about 1000 quintillion(10^18) neurons which process data at what i think is close to the speed of light (i am not sure the speed of light thing)
Example of fast thinking:Look through the window. You may see people walking.
Maybe one of them is holding a briefcase. Your fast thinking says that this man is probably going to his job. Maybe he is walking a little faster on which we could assume he is late for this job.
Example of slow thinking: This is rather easy to explain. Try and solve this: 23*54. this engages slow thinking as when ur brain tries to find the answer in the quickest amount of time. this takes up a lot of energi from u and concentraces your brain only to this task. that is why 95% of the people trying to solve this task while reading this could not see that i have made some grammar fails.
A cool fact that i found online is that the brain actually named itself and that the brain is a group of atoms trying to understand itself.
Another thing that, like the grammar fail, 90% of the people could not see: When i was talking about fast thinking, i only said a little to fully understand it, which i could do with slow thinking. But, some of you might have noticed that i said it would be rather easy to explain slow thinking but actually i said more about it than fast thinking.
Also look at this sentence : "Another thing like that, like the grammar fail, 90% of the people could not see:" Look at it. If you find something strange, then well done. But if you don't know what is it about this sentence look down and see.
I deliberately mentioned "like the grammar fail" as i was mentioning a similar thing. I said 95% of the people could not see the grammar fail before, BUT, when i was to say the other thing i said "90% could not see:" Most of you could not see that i changed from 95% to 90%.
50% of you could understand that the past few stuff i said was me playing with your mind AND the other 50% were engaging slow thinking by thinking i was to trick them by saying 95% based on the previous test thus didn't read this sentence to the end. Yes im talking to you, random reader!
Thank you for reading this and not just read the first part and jump to the end like i would suspect about 40% of the people engaging fast thinking to read this as soon as possible.
THANKS!!! =)
Does the human brain have the same shape as that of the cattle?
Basically the same design and structures but in detail the shape of the whole brain and it components are different.
What is the function of the anterior communicating artery?
It connects left and right anterior cerebral arteries
Does the flasher unit in a 1995 Pontiac Firebird have different circuitry for left and right turns?
Actually there are 2 flashers under the dash under the steering column. One on right side of the column and one on the left side of the column. One is for emergency flashers and one is for signal lights. Hope this helps.
