Year: 2020

German scientist Frank Erbgut-head of the neurological center at the Nuremberg clinic reported on the neurological manifestations of COVID-19. According to the Professor, in seriously ill patients, stroke, inflammation of the meninges, dizziness and even epilepsy can appear as complications. The virus triggers a self-destructive autoimmune process in which the body attacks its own nerve cells. Frank Erbgut noted that neurological complications were observed in 36.4 % of patients in Wuhan, China. But the Professor reassured, stating that such complications do not appear in the General mass. And they should be considered the exception rather than the rule.

In common use, the term epilepsy refers to a whole group of diseases with very different clinical manifestations and different outcomes. Today, medicine knows more than 60 such diseases… People have known about this disease since ancient times. Medical historians say that there is no substance, mineral, animal or vegetable origin, which would not try to treat epilepsy. People who suffer from this disease, some consider mentally disabled, others-geniuses. Which of them is closer to the truth? Let's try to figure it out. The name is there, but the disease is not? In fact, there is no disease called "epilepsy". In common use, this term refers to a whole group of diseases with very different clinical manifestations and different outcomes. Today, medicine knows more than 60 such diseases. Among them,…

The placebo effect caused by pre-administration of different painkillers can be formed with the participation of different neurotransmitters-substances that provide signal transmission between nerve cells. It hides not one, but several different mechanisms that reflect the General principles of the nervous system, but implemented in different ways. A few years after experiments with stimulation, the main neurotransmitters of this phenomenon were found in laboratory rodents of the Central gray matter. They turned out to be endorphins, enkephalins, and a number of other substances called endogenous opioids. Their molecules have areas similar to those of the plant opioid morphine, so that all these substances can bind to opioid receptors, causing pain relief. Both short-term stress-induced pain relief and longer-term pain relief, which occur in response to almost any pain, are associated…

The information that we are aware of may differ markedly from what was originally received in our brain. The brain completes the information received, filling in gaps and eliminating uncertainty. This happens both with visual images, and with the read text, and with the speech perceived by ear, and with the feeling of the position of the body in space. Due to this, the processing is faster and usually gives a more accurate result. To complete the information, we use any available hints and keys. And this process is the more intense, the more uncertain the information received, that is, the more different ways to interpret it. One of the most obvious and studied examples is the processing of information about the taste of food and drinks. It is known…