Battle Against Ayurveda is a Fight for Our Survival
The Case against Patanjali by Indian Medical Association and the tone of Judiciary is alarming. We need to look into its historical and global context to fully grasp its ramification.
Remember those math problems, where when we couldn’t get the answer, we would go for a walk and come back… and immediately “get it”?! Well, it has scientific basis.
A recent study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience has shown that the brain regions responsible for decision-making continue to be active even when the conscious brain is distracted with a different task. The research was done by a team at Carnegie Mellon.
For the study, Creswell, recent Carnegie Mellon graduate James K. Bursley and Northeastern University’s Ajay B. Satpute presented 27 healthy adults with information about cars and other items while undergoing neuroimaging. Then, before being asked to make decisions about the items, the participants had to complete a difficult distractor task—memorizing sequences of numbers—to prevent them from consciously thinking about the decision information.
The study threw up three main findings:
Basically, it is important to rest the brain before going ahead with a problem which you have engaged in over a long period of time.
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