The Brain’s Balancing Act: Prof. Rony Paz - AI & Neuroscience

Recorded June 29th, 2018
Rony Paz is an associate professor (tenured) in the Dept. of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
www.weizmann.ac.il

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Thanks for sharing

[@mziqbal2003]

An excellent demonstration on the understanding of brain funtionality. Thank you ☺💖👍👌

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Great talk about the human brain. I'm not a scientist or doctor, so I do have some difficulty understanding all of it.
Sorry for stating the obvious but I have to write this comment, if only to see if I understand it a bit.
So it could be that what I'm writing here is already common knowledge or that I'm completely wrong about all of it.
Is it the memory of a traumatic situation causing the brain and the human body to stay in a 'stress' like state?
Or is the 'stress' like state of the brain / human body causing the person to think or reliving the traumatic experience?
And can the "cycle" only be broken by medication or/and visits to a psychiatrist or psychologist?
If medication can break the persons constant state of fear or anxiety, then you could think that it is more like a physical thing, like a disease.
But if talking to a psychiatrist and/or psychologist helps a person then you could think it is a mental thing, to change how a person thinks and bringing the traumatic experience to the background or dealing with it or something like that.
Usually it is a combination of both, so medication and talks with a psychiatrist/psychologist.
So it would seem, to me, that it is both a physical/chemical imbalance (hormones, adrenaline, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphins) and a mental imbalance (unrealistic expectations, fear, anxiety, anger, stress).
But can you seperate the physical from the mental? Both seem to be involved in keeping the brain in a hightened state of fear or stress. It is a very confusing and complex and difficult subject.
The more I think about it, the more complex it becomes to me. No wonder this subject is one of the most difficult subjects.
I'm not sure I understand, but at least I'm trying a bit. Sorry for my simple view about it. I'm not a student or doctor, just an average person thinking about this.

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1st one on this good topic

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One problem is that the brain uses sparse differential encoding, so good luck tracing that down. Maybe you can just nuke it from orbit.