^ No, that's wrong. I meant to write lobe, not gyrus. It's the fusiform gyrus, right next to the the inferior temporal gyrus.

Oh, so the parietal lobe isn't good enough for you? No dice, Cheech.

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That reminds me. The other split personalities and I have signed a petition for more roomy accommodations. Perhaps near the frontal lobe would be nice.

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I think you're really thinker247. Spooky.

That reminds me. The other split personalities and I have signed a petition for more roomy accommodations. Perhaps near the frontal lobe would be nice.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
I think you're really thinker247. Spooky.

I don't know how much I trust this source but..

Last Friday, at a rally against the ongoing construction of Israel's "separation wall," Tristan was shot in the head by a high-velocity tear-gas cannister. He was taking photographs at a weekly demonstration in the West Bank village of Ni'lin, which stands to lose 25% of its remaining land to the wall. (The wall was ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice in 2004. Undertaken in the name of state security, it effects a further massive land theft by the Israeli government on behalf of Jewish settlers in the West Bank.)

Tristan's skull and face were shattered. Surgeons removed part of the frontal lobe of his brain, and he may lose an eye.

Because the Israeli army does not allow Palestinian ambulances into Israel, Tristan's ambulance was detained for 15 minutes at a military checkpoint, while he lay bleeding from his brain. He was ultimately transferred to an Israeli ambulance.

Israeli government spokespersons said the soldiers followed proper policy, as the protest took place in a closed military zone. This stance is hardly surprising. Since July 2008, Israeli soldiers have killed four unarmed residents of Ni'lin, ages ranging from 10 to 22, at demonstrations against the wall. Three of these four Palestinian youths were shot in the head, and one in the back; three by live ammo, and one by "rubber-coated steel bullets" that lodged in his brain.

this makes my frontal lobe explode from rapidly alternating urges to laugh, get pissed and cry harder than ive ever cried before.

>> ^my15minutes:
promote
wonder what rarely-mentioned 4th layer of the subconscious would be properly represented by Zeppo...


Probably the posterior internet porn lobe.

hey - thanks for that. You left the chat room before I could finish my long-winded reply.

I edited the tags on your vid - replaced 'MRI' and 'CT' with 'SPECT', the type of imaging they were using. It's a variant of PET imaging. And I added alcohol to the list of drugs. Gotta have alcohol.

I didn't want to vote for it at first, because there were a couple of bits of misinformation. But the brain channel needs all it can get - and the vid does describe brain function and neuropathology. The bit about the reduced motivation due to decreased temporal lobe activity really struck me the most. I won't say it's completely wrong, but motivation is primarily a function of the frontal lobes (think R. P. McMurphy after his frontal lobotomy).

Anyway, thanks for the contribution - I'm having a hard enough time just getting folks to go through their sifted vids to add to the channel. I wonder if my choice was a little too narrow. Maybe I'll pull a choggie and give the channel to nibiyabi to run more broadly and I'll create another.

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I shopped for your channel this morning. http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Effects-of-Drugs-On-the-Brain

Help! I've rolled my eyes so far backward that I'm STARING AT MY FRONTAL LOBE! AND THEY'RE STUCK!! Does anyone know how to fix this???

Mine eyes have rolled so far back in my head, I'm now looking at my frontal lobe.

When people get cancer in their frontal lobe, it can completely change their personality. Thus proving our brain determines what/who we are thus proving there is no soul. When your brain dies, you cease to exist.

Not very complicated.

Yeah, fascinating man, like what will happen when we take out a small portion of the frontal lobe kinna fascinating....sick Nazi state-funded fucks- CPS, social services, adoption agencies...all breeding grounds for tweakers who love to dictate-

Tags for this video have been changed from 'religion, brain, bbc, documentary, faith' to 'religion, brain, bbc, documentary, faith, temporal, lobe, epilepsy' - edited by my15minutes

>> ^rottenseed:
they're just as much trapped in captivity as we all are.

i like my cage. i put posters up and everything.

and i blow smoke rings. and enjoy it just as much as they do.

with or without a prefrontal lobe.

Oh. My. God.
And for those that have 30 minutes to kill as well as a frontal lobe or a cerebellum, the .002 dollars = .002 cents video is here.

Thanks for the story-so I was right about the labia connection! I'll have to find another video about the entrapment idea..

In reply to this comment by rembar:
Seph, it isn't quite so Freudian as all that, but still a rather interesting story. From Sarracenia.com:
"The true reason that Venus is part of this plant's name due to the dirty minds of the kooky naturalists and nuserymen (such as John & William Bartram, Peter Collinson, William Darlington, Arthur Dobbs, John Ellis, and Daniel Solander). When they looked at the plant, they saw in its amazing behavior and attractive form (two red, glistening lobes, surrounded by hairs, sensitive to the touch), something that reminded them of female genitalia of their own species. Indeed!

Amongst themselves, this cabal of learned perverts referred to the plant as a "tipitiwitchet" (or "Tippity Twitchet"). It was subsequently assumed by historians that this was a Native American term, but linguistic experts have eliminated that as a possibility.

Tipitiwitchet, it appears, was a naughty euphemism of their own devising. I like to imagine a few of them coining the term one night as they were slamming down beers in a pub or in a sumptuous study. I'm guessing that the originator of the term was probably John Bartram. For while you might expect a scientist to express wonder or astonishment upon seeing the plant, Bartram wrote to Collinson on 29 August 1762 that "my little tipitiwitchet sensitive stimulates laughter in all ye beholders"."