chocoloco said:
highwaystar101 said:
chocoloco said:
This research is a myth until it is replicated many times. Also 90 patients is hardly enough to show anything . Also did the article even mention what method was used to detect brain volume or mass or whatever else was measued? Plus, it always brings up the question was that portion of the brain bigger because people were born that way or did the neurons create more synapsis creating greater brain density due to use of that particular region.
Neuroscience is such a new science I would not trust any article shown in that magazine. Call me a skeptic, but that is the job of a scientist.
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I know the research still has to be replicated, and I'm sceptical too (that was the point of this thread really).
I'm not a neuroscientist though, so I would probably struggle to understand much more if I read the research itself. Also, neuroscience little more than the curiosity of a layman to me, I'm interested, but I've never read deep into the subject.
And the way they detected brain mass was by measuring blood flows to certain areas using an MRI scanner.
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Well I'm no neuroscientist either, I just get annoyed when none scientific journals write about research because it is often overblown and manipulated just to make a good story for the mass audience. Still I cannot deny it can be interesting.
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Yeah, I often cringe when I see something that I've studied or researched at University. Mostly because our research department does research into virtual reality, and whenever you read about VR in magazines they always massively overblow what the technology can achieve, promising technology that is many years away as though it's going to be here tomorrow. So I know where you're coming from.
It's even worse for my girlfriends father, he does research into global warming and ultimately its effects on crop yields. Just think how much the media overblows what he does research into.
But still, I do find reading about other fields interesting, and science magazines are an accesible way to do that.
