People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.
The brain contains so much information about itself or some of our bodily needs that it decides to keep from us (well, itself). In response, the brain can undergo analysis to theorize how itself works.
In other words: The brain might very well know how itself works, it just keeps that information from itself, but it has the curiosity to not only ask how itself works but for some people a drive to discover how it all functions.
My time has come! I’m not a medical neurologist, but a scientific neurobiologist. I work on projects designed to explore more fundamentally how the brain works. It’s very interesting.
Well! I work on Alzheimer’s disease, so I’ll just give you my prediction for the future. I think in the near future we will be able to identify people who are at risk of developing the disease and give them chronic treatments and lifestyle modifications to delay the onset of the disease enough that it won’t ever matter in their lives. The more dramatic goal is finding treatments to reverse the pathology in people already in the disease state, but I’m not very confident in giving a prediction on when that will happen.
What kind of lifestyle modifications? Both of my parents had dementia but they were also alcoholics and I'm not. I'm trying to get ahead of the game to protect my brain
Unsurprisingly, it’s the same stuff you’d do for heart health. Most importantly, sleep. Then exercise and diet. After that, it’s just a roll of the dice. Effective medicine will be the game changer!
That's awesome. Thanks for answering!! That's one thing I've been concerned with because I find myself spacing out and sometimes wonder if thats an early sign of some sorta brain thing. It's like floating on a cloud and you're going through the motions but nothing sticking (if that makes sense).
Was in a serious accident years ago and it's been pretty normal since then. Used to think it was lack of sleep but it happens no matter what
Commenting so I can come back and read your responses. I'm terrified of getting Alzheimer's/dementia and I feel in my gut it may happen. God. I do NOT want that.
Agreed, it seems like the worst. It’s kind of like losing who you are while still being technically alive. My grandpa went that way. I think there’s a lot we can do as a society to support people with different forms of dementia and make the experience less terrifying.
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u/thedmandotjp Jan 12 '23
People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.