Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2011 22:15:30 GMT -6
I just did a search on the internet about "part of the brain behind the left ear" and came up with this article:
discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/15-brain-switches-that-can-turn-mental-illness-on-off/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C=
I skimmed through the article, and came across this paragraph:
The hippocampus is probably not the only place where experiences rewrite epigenetic marks in the brain. An international group of researchers recently compared the brains of 44 people who had committed suicide with those of 33 people who died of natural causes. The scientists looked at a gene that produces the protein BDNF, which promotes hormone receptors, in a part of the brain called the Wernicke area. That area, located behind the left ear in most people, helps us interpret the meanings of words. In March the researchers reported that the BDNF switch had more methyl groups attached to it in the Wernicke area of suicide victims than in other people.
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Hmmmmmmmmm.....
The following italicized section was copied from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernicke%27s_area
Wernicke's area is named after Carl Wernicke, a German neurologist and psychiatrist who, in 1874, hypothesized a link between the left posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus and the reflexive mimicking of words and their syllables that associated the sensory and motor images of spoken words.[5] He did this on the basis of the location of brain injuries that caused aphasia. Receptive aphasia in which such abilities are preserved is now sometimes called Wernicke's aphasia. In this condition there is a major impairment of language comprehension, while speech retains a natural-sounding rhythm and a relatively normal syntax. Language as a result is largely meaningless (a condition sometimes called fluent or jargon aphasia).
While neuroimaging and lesion evidence generally support the idea that malfunction of or damage to Wernicke's area is common in people with receptive aphasia, this is not always so. Some people may use the right hemisphere for language, and isolated damage of Wernicke's area cortex (sparing white matter and other areas) may not cause severe receptive aphasia.[1][6] Even when patients with Wernicke's area lesions have comprehension deficits, these are usually not restricted to language processing alone. For example, one study found that patients with posterior lesions also had trouble understanding nonverbal sounds like animal and machine noises.[7] In fact, for Wernicke's area, the impairments in nonverbal sounds were statistically stronger than for verbal sounds.
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Maybe tampering with this area of the brain enables them to communicate with us via telepathy...
This article states that in 90% of people, this area of the brain is on the LEFT side. In 10% of people, this area of the brain is on the RIGHT side...
Double Hmmmmm....
Not only is this area responsible for verbal communication between people via words, it's also important for processing ANY form of sound and what it means...
discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/15-brain-switches-that-can-turn-mental-illness-on-off/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C=
I skimmed through the article, and came across this paragraph:
The hippocampus is probably not the only place where experiences rewrite epigenetic marks in the brain. An international group of researchers recently compared the brains of 44 people who had committed suicide with those of 33 people who died of natural causes. The scientists looked at a gene that produces the protein BDNF, which promotes hormone receptors, in a part of the brain called the Wernicke area. That area, located behind the left ear in most people, helps us interpret the meanings of words. In March the researchers reported that the BDNF switch had more methyl groups attached to it in the Wernicke area of suicide victims than in other people.
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Hmmmmmmmmm.....
The following italicized section was copied from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernicke%27s_area
Wernicke's area is named after Carl Wernicke, a German neurologist and psychiatrist who, in 1874, hypothesized a link between the left posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus and the reflexive mimicking of words and their syllables that associated the sensory and motor images of spoken words.[5] He did this on the basis of the location of brain injuries that caused aphasia. Receptive aphasia in which such abilities are preserved is now sometimes called Wernicke's aphasia. In this condition there is a major impairment of language comprehension, while speech retains a natural-sounding rhythm and a relatively normal syntax. Language as a result is largely meaningless (a condition sometimes called fluent or jargon aphasia).
While neuroimaging and lesion evidence generally support the idea that malfunction of or damage to Wernicke's area is common in people with receptive aphasia, this is not always so. Some people may use the right hemisphere for language, and isolated damage of Wernicke's area cortex (sparing white matter and other areas) may not cause severe receptive aphasia.[1][6] Even when patients with Wernicke's area lesions have comprehension deficits, these are usually not restricted to language processing alone. For example, one study found that patients with posterior lesions also had trouble understanding nonverbal sounds like animal and machine noises.[7] In fact, for Wernicke's area, the impairments in nonverbal sounds were statistically stronger than for verbal sounds.
***
Maybe tampering with this area of the brain enables them to communicate with us via telepathy...
This article states that in 90% of people, this area of the brain is on the LEFT side. In 10% of people, this area of the brain is on the RIGHT side...
Double Hmmmmm....
Not only is this area responsible for verbal communication between people via words, it's also important for processing ANY form of sound and what it means...