Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

An intensive form of propaganda conducted under highly stressful conditions. Intense psychological indoctrination for the purpose of displacing the individual’s previous thoughts and attitudes with those selected by the regime or person inflicting the indoctrination.  

The rhythmic fluctuations in voltage between the parts of the brain produced by the spontaneous firings of its neurons and recorded by the electroencephalograph. The fluctuation, usually rhythmic, of electrical impulses produced by the brain.  

Brain waves.  

Diseased or a disordered condition of the brain: pathology.  

Brain injury in which an object pierces the skull and tears brain tissue.  

Brain damage.  

The electronic assessment of the structure and function of the human brain.  

The left or right half of the brain.  

The concept that a person may be considered dead when the brain is no longer functioning as determined by technology. Condition in which the nerves in the brain stem have died, and the person can be certified as dead, although the heart may not have stopped beating. Total cessation of all activity in the brain,…

Any structural damage due to any cause or causes. Damage caused to the brain as a result of oxygen and sugar deprivation, e.g. after a haemorrhage, accident, or though disease. Injury, degeneration, or death of nerve cells within the brain. Damage can be wide and diffuse or localized and specific. Neurodegeneration refers to the degeneration…