Bad Medicine
Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O
Chapter One
10 Percent Misconception,
90 Percent Misdirection:
The Brain at Work
Often it is said that we use only 10 percent of our brain. Is
the brain really a vast, untapped resource of incomprehensible
powers? Absolutely. I've heard countless vapid cell-phone
conversations on street corners that attest to this. I remember one
young lady giddy over a "brown baby pigeon" that was hopping
about her feet while she was talking to her friend. The bird was a
sparrow.
Remarkably, she was using nearly 100 percent of her brain in
describing the "baby pigeon." Optic nerves were relaying the
image of a tiny brown bird to the visual cortex way in the back
of her brain via the thalamus, sort of the brain's relay station.
Cochlear nerves in her ears were transmitting the electrical impulses
of the sound of her friend's inane chatter through the brain
stem and thalamus to the auditory cortex, where it was ultimately
interpreted as language in her brain's Wernicke's area. Memory is
spread widely through the brain, from the hippocampus and amygdala
to the cerebral cortex, so it is not clear where the young lady
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