Myth and truth about the brain

On the last tuesday, the doctor Pedro Maldonado did a oral interaction about the brain, their anatomical configuration, the weight, number of neurons and synapsis, etc.
The main topic was Myth and truth about the brain.

The ideas were:
-The human brain is very different from the brains of other animals.
This is a myth, because physiologically all the brains are same, with the same components, but localized in different places.

-Every brain function is localized in a specific place of the brain.
This is a myth, because there are many areas of the brain that are activated when an action is realized, for example look, listen, etc.

-The brain main functions is to represent the world around us
This is a myth too, because we perceive the world depending on our interests and our atention.

-The brain functions like a computer.

This is a myth, because a computer hasn´t the capacity of change as the brain. In the brain there the cortical plasticity, which allows that in the case of an cerebral accident the cortex can adapt to continue working of good way.

In general, the people has a false perception of the function of the brain, and is very interesting this topic because much of the population suffer any neurological problem as hearing loss, depression, stroke, parkinson, schizophrenia. In chile this pathologies have increased in the 10 last years.

My opinion about this oral interaction is that was very important for my career and for my was very interesting topic.

Aborption

On tuesday in the English class, the Doctor Lorena Binfa gave us a nice talk about the sexuality, the position of the women, the aborption.
Some time ago, the view of the society about sexuality was extremaly male chauvinist, the woman was considered a object for the men. Also the sexuality is considered in our country a taboo topic.
The women hasn't straight to give your opinion about any topic, because your opinion wasn't considered by the society.
In topic related to sexuality, the women was very inferior to men. The men can do many things with the women, al times could get to abused them.

In the case of a pregnant woman that would abort your baby, she can not decide about your condition, because the law prohibit it. For the law, all kind of aborption is considered a crime, including the espontaneus aborption

My opinion is that the talk was very interesting because it talked about issues that are important in society, the role of women relative to men is a subject little discussed in terms of topics related to sexuality, not known the rights that women or they can take decisions on issues like abortion, the legal significance that has to act without information

Machismo today is not as strong as in earlier times, which gives more rights to women regarding various issues, the law covers sexual abuse against women and violence.

Sexuality issues could be improved if we were informed from small.

Stress

Today, the pace of life accelerates exaggerated people as they grow. People get more responsibilities and on a demanding world, you must know to comply with many things in a very short time. This makes the stress levels of the population increase, bringing negative consequences both personally and socially.
Among the consequences that comes from this social disease you can find many different types from natural and hair loss, immune system failure and wrinkling of the skin, even as strong as psychological depression and anxiety disorders, and other types like feeding disorders.
To combat this social cancer is widely used to measure anxiety as an escape, although many people abuse them and falls into intoxication and addiction problems because of these drugs are sold without prescription. Alternative medicine is gaining ground as well as treatments with professional psychologists and psychiatrists. Another way which people combat stress is with yoga, massage and tea with many types of herbs and essences.
About people who suffer from this disease, their ages are concentrated between 16 and 50 years, where people are more active than childhood and begin to take greater responsibility ending at the old age, where people's activity decreases substantially.A fast expansion of networks and connectivity of society and the changes it has undergone in technology have meant that the disease reaches even children, which are influenced by the models they see on TV everyday, they begin to suffer from an age increasingly earlier and more severe consequences for their further development.