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Kia Ora,

When it come to trans-people there's a lot of talk about the wiring in the brain so...


::) Just out of interest, are you sure you have one ? If you are, then when was the last time you actually saw or felt your own brain ?

Food for thought [provided you have a brain for the neurotransmitters to interact  that is] ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

I have the MRI and MRA scans of my brain, taken in October 2012.  The stroke damage is very well-imaged.

In fact, I just looked at them.  And my name is still there.

Quote from: Jamie D on March 28, 2013, 11:34:41 PM
I have the MRI and MRA scans of my brain, taken in October 2012.  The stroke damage is very well-imaged.

In fact, I just looked at them.  And my name is still there.

Kia Ora Jamie,

But you haven't actually seen it, only a photo [and we all know about trick photography and the likes of  photoshop] ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: Kuan Yin on March 28, 2013, 11:57:55 PM
Kia Ora Jamie,

But you haven't actually seen it, only a photo [and we all know about trick photography and the likes of  photoshop] ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

I think to be able to actually see it would be difficult I mean you would have to basically cut the top part of your skull off to get to it so, I would lead to think I have have a brain because I am not interested into finding out by those means.

Help, mine is escaping!

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurama-madhouse.com%2Fgrabs%2F3acv07%2F307-85.jpg&hash=df912fee0c285b9a46e567671f35004e18a22d80)

Kia Ora Jamie,

You might find this interesting, Jill Bolte Taylor, had a stroke and managed to document her experience...Truly amazing...

Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7jSFeVz1U#)

Metta Zenda :)

Thank you very much  :)

Quote from: Jamie D on March 29, 2013, 02:11:18 AM
Thank you very much  :)

Kia Ora Jamie,

You're welcome...

Metta Zenda :)

When I was a kid I used to try to roll my eyes back to look at it. I've given up on that, though, since everyone around me is pretty convinced I don't have one. I'll take their word for it 'cause I'm lazy like that.  ;D

Migraine sufferer here.

Oh I know it's in there alright. Damn thing malfunctions on a regular basis some years.

They say a migraine is like a form of stroke.

All I know, is while experiencing one, I can relate to a record skipping.

All your senses start over reacting, misreporting and just plain not working according to factory settings.

Add to that, I'm stuck in a male form, and yippee frigging hurrah, it means I suffer from THAT brain too.

Then there is the ill advised medications the poorly trained in local psychiatry have offered me during the 90s that sure did me no favours.

I have had it imaged and scanned several times.

It doesn't really surprise me no one seems to think like I do :)

Quote from: Jamie D on March 28, 2013, 11:34:41 PM
I have the MRI and MRA scans of my brain, taken in October 2012.  The stroke damage is very well-imaged.

In fact, I just looked at them.  And my name is still there.

Yep, same here. Even saw the dead spot in my brain - i guess that i'm truly "brain dead" now  :D

I read the book by Jill Boltle Taylor and my experience, while somewhat similar, was a little different than hers. Still an interesting read.

Kia Ora,

Studying the brain [from the inside] is like a magical mystical mystery tour...I want what she's having  ;) ;D .... ::) No wait ! Silly me...I've already got this without taking LSD  ;) ;D

rare footage of 1950s housewife in LSD experiment.flv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGf2loLAwVE#)

Metta Zenda :)

I feel like my brain is mush. On the subject of brains, look at this! Isn't this cool?

See-through brains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NMfp13Uug#)

Quote from: Edge on April 11, 2013, 02:03:03 PM
I feel like my brain is mush. On the subject of brains, look at this! Isn't this cool?

See-through brains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NMfp13Uug#)

Kia Ora Edge,

Thanks, it's interesting ... There's more to the brain than meets the eye !

Metta Zenda :)

Brains are over rated....

There is no evidence of superiority in the animal
World accredited to brains...

As a matter of fact having one can be a problem

Well, I haven't seen mine, but I've had someone zap the area responsible for hand movement from outside my skull with TMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation) and my hand moved, so... it's probably in there!

And I've seen other people's, up close and personal (preserved specimens that I got to handle) and when using an fMRI scanner.

Is that you in the avatar picture kia ora?

Quote from: peky on April 12, 2013, 06:48:32 PM
Is that you in the avatar picture kia ora?

Kia Ora Peky,

Yes I guess so...Why, have you seen it on the "Most Wanted" programme and want to collect the reward ?  ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: brainiac on April 12, 2013, 04:22:05 PM
Well, I haven't seen mine, but I've had someone zap the area responsible for hand movement from outside my skull with TMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation) and my hand moved, so... it's probably in there!

Kia Ora Brainiac,

Like a puppet on a string....

Sandie Shaw - Puppet On A String (1967) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrs8CgpH980#)

Metta Zenda :)

Actually, just finished removing and dissecting a brain out of a cadaver for school a couple of months ago... Yes, I myself actually got to crack open the cranium with a chisel and hammer, and pull out the cadaver's brain ;)  Saw about 40 more brains removed from the other cadavers around our lab... So I made the inference that I might have one too lol!

Quote from: forallittook on April 13, 2013, 12:36:48 AM
Actually, just finished removing and dissecting a brain out of a cadaver for school a couple of months ago... Yes, I myself actually got to crack open the cranium with a chisel and hammer, and pull out the cadaver's brain ;)  Saw about 40 more brains removed from the other cadavers around our lab... So I made the inference that I might have one too lol!

Kia Ora forallittook,

But you still have yet to see your own...So you can't say for sure that you have one too ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

Lol... Just guess I will have to do some self-brain surgery 10 years from now after residency if I ever go down the neurosurgeon path :0)

Quote from: forallittook on April 13, 2013, 01:20:32 AM
Lol... Just guess I will have to do some self-brain surgery 10 years from now after residency if I ever go down the neurosurgeon path :0)

Kia Ora forallittook,

But you'll need a 'brain' to carry out this, are you sure you've got one ?  ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: Kuan Yin on April 12, 2013, 09:13:44 PM
Kia Ora Peky,

Yes I guess so...Why, have you seen it on the "Most Wanted" programme and want to collect the reward ?  ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

and just to think I belived you were a Cockney....now I understand the "kia Ora" business you are a Māori...now where the "Kuan Yin" comes from...are you partially Chinese?

Quote from: peky on April 13, 2013, 04:52:02 PM
and just to think I belived you were a Cockney....now I understand the "kia Ora" business you are a Māori...now where the "Kuan Yin" comes from...are you partially Chinese?

Kia Ora Peky,

Afro-Caribbean father [Jamaican-Jamaican Patois,] Anglo-Saxon mother [English-Londoner-Cockney] Produced me=Afro-Saxon 'tanned' Cockney[I got my mother's accent] ...No doubt in another life I was also Chinese... ;) ;D

Mind you when living in Oz I was once mistaken for Chinese...Weird but true...

When I first arrived in Oz I met Aussies who thought I was 'faking' my accent, because they had never seen a 'coloured' Pom before...Australia did at the time [when I emigrated]  have an "All White Immigration Policy" I got in because they 'assumed' I was of Mediterranean descent which for the Aussie immigration officials was good enough=white enough...

Not that I mind, after all, over the years I've been mistaken for Brazilian, Spanish, French [South of France people have dark skin], Greek, Italian, Middle Eastern, Indonesian, Japanese... Occasionally some get it right and say things like "Are you part Jamaican ?" Or "You must have some West Indian blood in you !"   

{I forgot my all time favourite weirdness=When living on the Danish island of Bornholm, I worked in a youth hostel and during a lunch break-I was sitting in the lounge reading the 'GodFather' and a young American backpacker said "Wow! your English is good enough for you to read a book in English !" Remember I have tanned skin, curly hair and slight African facial feature, however when I go to the beach 'which I did quite often' the sun and salt water used to bleach my hair-I'd end up with blond sun bleached streaks through it, so it would seem he thought blond hair=Danish- tanned skin=I tanned easily in the summer sun...I mean, how far could I possible be from a Nordic features, blue eyed, blond hair Scandinavian-but weird things do happen ! }  ;D   

But all jokes aside, here in Aotearoa [NZ] people, 'especially overseas tourists' think I'm Maori, or part Maori...My ex is Pākehā [European White New Zealander] when we were together and our 'countries of birth' came into the topic of conversation with strangers, their first thoughts were, that I was the Kiwi [Maori] and my ex was the Pom [English]...

I tend to call 'home' wherever the body happens to be...

Metta Zenda :) 

I've seen pictures of it  ;D I had an fMRI a few years back. I was in the hospital and they wanted to make sure I didn't have tumor or something before they gave me an "official" bipolar diagnosis. The doctor told me it was quite a light show  ;)

I haven't seen my brain now that you mention it   :o Maybe it's all a huge conspiracy hospitals came up with  :P

Quote from: Darkflame on April 16, 2013, 05:43:29 PM
I've seen pictures of it  ;D I had an fMRI a few years back. I was in the hospital and they wanted to make sure I didn't have tumor or something before they gave me an "official" bipolar diagnosis. The doctor told me it was quite a light show  ;)

I haven't seen my brain now that you mention it   :o Maybe it's all a huge conspiracy hospitals came up with  :P

Kia Ora Darkflame,

It's one big conspiracy theory, thought up by people who have seen 'other' people's brains-but not their own... ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)