Think Beyond Science - A Life Science and Wellness Blog
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I am a science communicator and avid reader with a focus on Life Sciences. I write for a science blog covering topics like psychology , sociology, spirituality, and human experiences. I also share book recommendations on Life Sciences, aiming to inspire.
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Creating a memory takes place in four basic steps: Encoding. Your brain captures the sights, sounds, information, emotion, and meaning of what you perceived and paid attention to and translates all this into neurological language. Consolidation.

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Understanding the Role of Forgetting in Memory
Memory involves a complex process of encoding, consolidation, storage, and retrieval, primarily facilitated by the hippocampus. Forgetting can be a natural part of memory function, not simply an ob…
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The second strategy is the province of religion, which assures us that death is but a doorway to another world and that the most important opportunities in life occur after the lifetime of the body.
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The first strategy leads to a life of conventional worldliness and distraction--we merely strive for pleasure and success and do our best to keep the reality of death out of view.
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As variable and dynamic as our spinning planet, the human body has a chemical climate that waxes and wanes with hormonal tides, and complex landscapes that shift with advancing age.
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At their microscopic size, the body of another organism, particularly a macro-scale backboned creature like a human, represents not just a single niche, but an entire world of habitats, ecosystems and opportunities.
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If you think back to school, you were taught that solids, liquids and gases are all different states of matter. The frequency of the vibrations at a molecular level defines what state they're in and how they appear to us.
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3) bottom up: by allowing the body to have experiences that deeply and viscerally contradict the helpless-ness, rage, or collapse that result from trauma.
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2) by taking medicines that shut down inappropriate alarm reactions, or by utilizing other technologies that change the way the brain organizes information; and
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High insulin levels also "lock" energy into your fat cells, so that you have trouble breaking down stored fat into fatty acids or stored protein into amino acids for energy. When your insulin levels are elevated, the only macronutrient that you can efficiently utilize for energy is carbohydrate.
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and only after minds developed language and lived to tell did it become widely known that minds did exist. The self as witness is the something extra that reveals the presence, in each of us, of events we call mental. We need to understand how that something extra is created.
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Thankfully, most of us don't experience multiple simultaneous chronic diseases before we get old; when we picture our retirement, we don't imagine being ill simply because we've not got much to go.
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We don't picture being in hospital with an IV line and a bladder catheter. Research shows that we don't deny the existence of cancer or heart attacks - just that few people believe it will happen to them. We also tend to extrapolate from previous experience.
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Most of us don't save enough for our pensions and find it hard to stick to diets or exercise regimes. Human beings are also wired for optimism. We might picture ourselves grey-haired, retired, taking up new hobbies or playing with our grandchildren.

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Understanding Aging: Risks and Insights into Longevity
As humans age, they face increased risks of illness and death, with mortality rates doubling approximately every eight years. Understanding aging as a collection of biological changes can lead to t…
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Kids race and dash in random directions, generally uncontrollably and unpredictably, but can be rounded up by their teacher and sit (mostly) quietly behind their desks when class begins again.