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Handbook of Research on Social Marketing and Its Influence on Animal Origin Food Product Consumption
An organ inside the skull which controls thought, memory, feelings and activity.
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Genius, Creativity and (Not) Eating Meat
İsmail Hakkı Tekiner (Istanbul Gelişim University, Turkey), Ahmad Ni'matullah Al-Baarri (Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia), and Diana Bogueva (Curtin University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4757-0.ch013
Abstract
A major hypothesis argues that the dietary shifts of the proto-humans towards animal proteins enabled humans to develop large brains as well as build planning, cooperating, socializing, exploring and creative skills, related to food techniques, including using fire, cooking, fermentation, agriculture and animal domestication. Many million years later, human population has drastically increased and livestock has grown even faster creating unprecedented global environmental, climate change and health challenges. This chapter asks whether animal meat continues to be essential for human nutrition. It refers to prominent people in human history considered geniuses because of their creative and intellectual abilities. It explores whether there is a link between genius, creativity and eating meat and answers this in the negative based on well-known geniuses who have negated the meat-eating diet. Social marketing can anchor some of its techniques in using such personalities as role models for changing the current high dependence on meat.
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Measuring Consumer Behavior Using Neuroscience Methods in Marketing
A soft organ made up of blood vessels, interconnected nerves (neurons), and fluid-filled ventricles.
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Investigating the Roles of Neuroscience and Knowledge Management in Higher Education
The soft convoluted mass of nervous tissue within the skull of vertebrates that is the commanding and coordinating center of the nervous system and the seat of thought, memory, and emotion.
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Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation of Mobile Phones on the Human Brain
A brain is an organ which fills serves as the center point of the sensory system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate creatures. It is situated in the skull, by and large near the tangible organs for faculties like vision. It is the most multifarious organ in a vertebrate’s body. In man, the cerebral cortex involves around 14-16 billion neurons.
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Foundations of Neuropsychology
A brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision. It is the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body. In a human, the cerebral cortex contains approximately 14–16 billion neurons, and the estimated number of neurons in the cerebellum is 55–70 billion. Each neuron is connected by synapses to several thousand other neurons. These neurons communicate with one another by means of long protoplasmic fibers called axons, which carry trains of signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body targeting specific recipient cells.
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Automatic Detection of Tumor and Bleed in Magnetic Resonance Brain Images
The human brain is the central organ of the human nervous system and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem, and the cerebellum. It controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sense organs, and making decisions as to the instructions sent to the rest of the body. The brain is contained in, and protected by, the skull bones of the head. The cerebrum is the largest part of the human brain.
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Anatomy of the Brain
The brain is one of the largest, most vital and complex organs present in human body. It is made from more than 100 billion nerves that forms trillions of connections or projection subsequently called synapses. Synapses pass message from one location to another location via chemical transmission. It is located in the head, close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision.
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Neuromarketing and the Potential Application of Scientific Methods in Measuring Consumer Behaviour
A soft organ made up of blood vessels, interconnected nerves (neurons) and fluid - filled ventricles.
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