However, his left hand, which is controlled by the right hemisphere, had no trouble performing the task at all. It even tried to take over and help the right hand! However, when asked to do the same for objects in their right visual field, they could do it with ease! At approximately 3 pounds, it contains about billion neurons and trillion connections. Your brain is command central of all you think, feel, and do. Your brain is divided into two halves, or hemispheres.
Within each half, particular regions control certain functions. Different parts of your brain are connected by nerve fibers. If a brain injury severed the connection between sides, you could still function.
But the lack of integration would cause some impairment. The human brain is constantly reorganizing itself. This information is vital to advancing research into brain diseases and injuries, and how to recover from them.
The theory is that people are either left-brained or right-brained, meaning that one side of their brain is dominant. This first came to light in the s, thanks to the research of psychobiologist and Nobel Prize winner Roger W.
The left brain is more verbal, analytical, and orderly than the right brain. The right brain is more visual and intuitive. It has a more creative and less organized way of thinking. We know the two sides of our brain are different, but does it necessarily follow that we have a dominant brain just as we have a dominant hand? A team of neuroscientists set out to test this premise. After a two-year analysis , they found no proof that this theory is correct.
The two hemispheres are tied together by bundles of nerve fibers, creating an information highway. Clearly, I used my left hand preferentially from birth but many influences in my life changed my pattern of activity. Probably the first was the effect of my grade school teachers who tried to convert, at least my handwriting, to my right hand.
Fortunately my mother stopped that but did get to to straighten out my left handing when writing. It is frustrating to this day and I have not been able to change. It did cause a few problems when I was a pilot of my own airplane; but, not as a surgeon! What was difficult in my career was the overwhelming emphasis on right-handedness in the operating room.
Even the majority of instruments are designed specifically for right handers, to wit, scissors, needle holders and ratcheted clamps! I can say after a right sided, frontal lobe CVA, that muscle control of my left arm is the prime issue, not speech, etc.
Still a vast majority of people are unaware that growth of neurons forming human brain starts early and is almost complete by the age of 4 to 5 years and the basic hard wiring or circuitry connections patterns get developed in early childhood and neurons not used or sparingly used get decomposed.
Parenting with good coaching and focus on ability of parents and teachers for a healthier upbringing and use of brain by children is the most important part. Good that lefties are at no major disadvantage except writing of scripts can be left to right only…. Do we use our brain to its full capacity? We do not use even the skills and knowledge gathered to even a quarter of the whole! The amazing thing is that when I feel most in tune with God, my brain feels clear and light.
I hope there can be more studies done with people who use prayer to become more inspired. I am amazed at how the Lord can forgive me and clear my brain, even after it has felt muddled or unclear.
Robert is wrong. Handedness is strictly hard-wired. Also, it is everyday experience, that left-handed people have different menthality than right-handed ones.
Not better, just different. But even if the science cannot prove it, you should accept that there is a main difference between righ-handed and left-handed people. Congratulations, well done. However, the difference still exists between right-handed and left-handed people. What about ambidextrous individual like me?
I can use both hands in many ways though each hand is more adept in some functions than the other. I could not remember how I learned to write with my right hand but I can also write with my left if I need to. When I get tired using my left I can also switch to my right without any problems ex. When I became conscious of my being ambidextrous , I began using my right hand as I learned new skills knitting, giving injections.
Is there any study about ambidextrous individuals? What percentage of the population and how many are indeed gifted in both brain functions? I can write on a chalk board with my right hand, but prefer my left. At age 66 my right shoulder rotator cuff was severely injured in a surfing accident. There was too much damage for surgery to be effective but with rehabilitation, I could use both arms to paddle for surfing. However, a lifetime sport, tennis, was out of the question.
I decided to try with my left hand and with a lot of practice and patience, especially by my wife, I can now play almost as well with my left hand which is remarkable to me now age I also grew up in an extremely alcoholic and dysfunctional family developing some nasty personal traits.
This was aggravated by a ruptured right MCA aneurysm with a significant right brain insult, at age 28, causing some left sided weakness, pathfinding difficulties, and naming difficulties. When able, I began exercising, studying, and solving difficult mathematical problems in my head. Later, I began meditating and worked very hard on changing my very irritable personality. As my wife can attest, I changed remarkably over many years developing patience in addition to persistence, and becoming internally as well as externally calm.
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