this odd term we're in...

December!! :  The last classes and tests, Christmas, new year, and summer vacations!. If you had a normal year, of course. Well…NOT my exact situation. With a students strike that lasted almost seven months, there’s just no way that I’m having my precious vacations or a proper new years partying (algebra test on January 2^nd , stinks). I had tons of things in mind for these three months! : backpacking, doing sports, hang out with my very best friend (who is studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina), get lost in the woods, play music, find a summer love, etc, etc. So, what am I doing instead all this?: Study ‘till February!. Gosh!. Sounds horrible, right?.

People tend to ask me: what do you think about this rare, bizarre, out of the normal, unusual term?. There is no other answer  than: I don´t freaking like it!, but it has to be done. Especially if we’re talking about me. This is my second year at the university and I’m already a year late. That´s why linear algebra, calculus II, English IV, computer programming and Taxonomy are my hole-summer friends.

The Divided Brain: My Summary.

Our brain works differently on each side (or hemisphere) of it. In other words, one hemisphere does certain jobs that the other one does not do.  That idea became really famous in the 60’s and 70’s after the first brain surgeries. Dough it showed a big advance for neurology and psychiatry, it’s nothing that neurologists (or psychiatrists) want to talk about anymore, due to the big mistakes that where made on the subject. For example, it was thought that for reason you used left hemisphere and for imagination the right one. Lie! Both hemispheres are needed for both, reason and imagination.

Another amazing thing this lecture gives, is that even dough the brain works by connections (and only thanks to that we think and act), there are two very important parts of this organ that their most important (if not only) function is to inhibit. One is the “corpus collosum” (the part between the two hemispheres) which blocks an hemisphere from the other; and there’s the frontal lobe who’s job is to inhibit the rest of the brain. Amazing.

What I conclude, now knowing that hemispheres have different roles, is that we coul try to develop each one separately to develop certain skills and jus be good at those, but we will only be complete an totally functional “thinkers” having both parts equally developed.

What this video did to me was no other thing that getting even more interested on neurology and psychology, learning, knowledge and cognitive development.