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the expression of stress response genes; which THE CORE TO HUMAN BRAIN
in turn improves immunity and alters metabolism.
AND HOMOLOGIES WITH
Pranayama also controls the brain centers SOFTWARE
(pre-frontal cortex, amydgala) associated with
emotional control and organizes the release Bijwe Manthan Shekhar
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of noradrenaline (controlled by the locus MSc. Student (3 Semester) Ajay Pal
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coeruleus) in the brain. Noradrenaline release is MSc. Student (3 Semester)
increased during stress and its decrease leads
to sluggishness. Locus coeruleus is stimulated When we see thing made by humans in the world, field based signaling. We consider our brain to be
during inhalations and decreases during we can easily conclude that the system is similar a total of different components such as cerebrum,
exhalations. Thus, pranayama can be an effective to some pre existing natural thing. Alternately cerebellum, medulla etc. and these components
technique to counter stress, anxiety, depression there are also a number of things which humans are home to different “centres”. For instance
and insomnia along with overall improvement made first without copying any pre existing the balancing center of body is the medulla
in vitality! There are several yogic breathing element and later found that such things actually oblongata while optic centre is at cerebral cortex.
techniques that can be used depending on one’s work the same. Human brain is one of the most Now, if we look at motherboard of any computer
health status and requirements. Some of them complex things to understand. As we humans system that too has different components such
are mentioned below: are trying to understand ourselves in parallel our as north bridge, south bridge etc. homologous to
brain also tries to understand itself. Human brain cerebrum and cerebellum. The components of

1. Nadi Shodhana: alleviates wandering thoughts, is a brilliant organ as it manages to run essential computer system have expansion buses, CMOS
anxiety, stress and improve focus. and need based processes as per requirements. components, bios, microprocessors and much
The initial brain like organs were much simpler more. The computers have a storage system,
2. Ujjayi pranayama: calms sympathetic nervous and had only fixed type of process executions but with different types of memory from temporary
system and boosts oxygen consumption with evolution things changed and the complexity to permanent (RAMs and storage device) and
increased by a great fold. slow to fast (local storage and cache) different
3. Simhasana Pranayama: To release anger and memories have different roles in functioning of
resentment A lot of the latest inventions in fields of system. Another important part is a processor,
neuroscience and electrophysiology relate to the which makes use of resources to process
4. Kapalabhati Pranayama: It energizes brain to approach of connecting humans with machines in information; there are numerous microprocessors
improve focus and strengthens muscles of the order to extend the capabilities of humans or help that are related to any of subcomponent such as
diaphragm and abdomen. Being a warming and the disabled ones. The development of neurochip audio, graphics and bios. But importantly the end
invigorating exercise, needs to be done under was a big innovation in the field, now prosthetic components such as input and output devices
supervision. eye, limbs and other organs are available. are generally fabricated to work with provided
instructions as per protocol and generally lacks
Wish you all a happy breathing ahead! I was always interested in the field of neuroscience processing components and memory; these parts
but much more interested in robotics and are also analogous to human brain and accessory
computer science and hence my common organs.
interests were neurochip and prosthetic organs.
The general approach used in the innovation is Now moving further, we know that a motherboard
mapping the nodes of damaged organ’s neurons runs on software stored in memory and processed
and then prosthetics are connected to the neurons by the processor. All instructions given to other
either directly or using alternative approaches like components are software-driven. But this part is