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[ToonyMan]

I mean mentally by how, hmm, ok I'll give a Dwarf Fortress example:

You have two dwarves, one has never seen a dwarf die and the other has seen death everyday.  The likely hood of the second dwarf freaking over a dwarf death is almost nothing while the first dwarf will most likely freak out.  Or something.

Well, I guess that's just your brain getting use to it, but...I don't know!  D:

[Yanlin]

That's not what I had in mind. Pun intended.

That's what we call a psychological transformation. It's new neural connections forming and old ones being modified based on experience. That's what memory actually is.

I was referring to the fact you can't get smarter by banging your head on a wall.

[ToonyMan]

Your skull sure does!

[Yanlin]

Considering it's a bone? Yes.

[Ohaeri]

But it DOES NOT work mentally. Since brain cells NEVER renew. Well, not until science figures it out. We've made great progress in regenerative medicine.

Actually--believe it or not!--it's been shown that marijuana, or rather a synthetic cannabinoids in this case, caused growth in the hippocampus in rats. Of course, this particular cannabinoid was about 100x stronger than THC, much purer, etc. and wasn't smoked. The smoke from marijuana is still pretty harmful, and prolonged THC use still causes cognitive dysfunction, so I'm not advocating you go out and buy a bag of weed. But it's possible that synthetic cannabinoids could be one of the next big things in psychopharmacology, IF their next studies into possible harmful effects are promising.

The researchers found that rats treated with HU-210 on a regular basis showed neurogenesis — the growth of new brain cells in the hippocampus. A current hypothesis suggests depression may be triggered when the hippocampus grows insufficient numbers of new brain cells. If true, HU-210 could offer a treatment for such mood disorders by stimulating this growth.

Research out of other countries, especially India from what I remember (it's been a while since I checked in on this), supports the results of this study.

[Yanlin]

But it DOES NOT work mentally. Since brain cells NEVER renew. Well, not until science figures it out. We've made great progress in regenerative medicine.

Actually--believe it or not!--it's been shown that marijuana, or rather a synthetic cannabinoids in this case, caused growth in the hippocampus in rats. Of course, this particular cannabinoid was about 100x stronger than THC, much purer, etc. and wasn't smoked. The smoke from marijuana is still pretty harmful, and prolonged THC use still causes cognitive dysfunction, so I'm not advocating you go out and buy a bag of weed. But it's possible that synthetic cannabinoids could be one of the next big things in psychopharmacology, IF their next studies into possible harmful effects are promising.

The researchers found that rats treated with HU-210 on a regular basis showed neurogenesis — the growth of new brain cells in the hippocampus. A current hypothesis suggests depression may be triggered when the hippocampus grows insufficient numbers of new brain cells. If true, HU-210 could offer a treatment for such mood disorders by stimulating this growth.

Research out of other countries, especially India from what I remember (it's been a while since I checked in on this), supports the results of this study.

This is EXACTLY what the SECOND HALF of my sentence mentioned! THIS KIND OF STUFF!

[Ohaeri]

This is EXACTLY what the SECOND HALF of my sentence mentioned! THIS KIND OF STUFF!

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "actually" but rather "as a matter of fact"

[Yanlin]

But remember. Generating new brain cells is nothing if you cannot establish new neural connections.

[eerr]

the brain can grow new nerual cells, it's just really really slow(and the speed varies from part to part)

for example, the fastest cell-grower is the primitive part of the brain, near the brainstem.