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Barcelona. (Reuters) -. Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam, Dick Swaab argues that near death experiences are the result of a brain abnormality, has said in an interview on his essay ” We are our brain. How we love, suffer and think “now appears in Spain.

Swaab

notes that “ light at end of tunnel ” many patients claim to have seen on the threshold of death is nothing more than a lack of blood supply to the eyeball, they causes loss of peripheral vision and envision only one light in the center of the eye.

About the feeling of “floating outside the body itself , the neurologist attributed to part of the brain, “the area responsible angular rotation of sensation balance, do not have enough oxygen. “

To reinforce his theories, Dick Swaab, who heads a research team at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, has stimulated the same brain area in conscious patients, who have also experienced the same feeling of being outside, “but again place when the stimulation ends, “he stresses.

Dick Swaab

believes that any sexual orientation is determined in the womb, and then there is no turning back, a claim that has generated controversy for its determinism and considering that no further treatment or therapy change our sexual genetic load .
“I believe in life before death” argues Swaab, who confesses atheist since age six, is also convinced that the human brain in charge of couples looking for us.

“It is our brain that choose the right partner.’s relationship is unconsciously and that is called falling in love, but it is the brain that is weighing all the pros and cons at full speed” Swaab argues.

In his view, it is highly important to choose an ideal partner, since 88% of the intellect is genetic, but also appreciates the importance of future baby safe environment and having had a mother who does not smoke or drink pregnancy.

Convinced by their research that the female and male brain are completely different from the womb, does not believe that, over the years, the characteristics of both sexes come.

“The differences between the brains of men and women are programmed and although hormones play a role, it is not the most important, because although the woman reaches menopause, it does not mean that masculinice” rivets.

On his advice to keep the brain healthy and grow old in conditions, Swaab highlights healthy living, keeping obesity at bay to avoid weakening blood vessels and not abusing drugs.

“For what I see, people in the south are much medicate, because I see how Madrid and Barcelona there is a pharmacy on every corner. I do not take any medicine. better spend the money on a good book, to expedite mind, “he advises.

regard to Alzheimer’s research, Swaab forceful stresses that “as aging therapies have advanced during the next ten years not yet be no effective therapy against Alzheimer’s, but in any case, it’s too late for me. “

Swaab, director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research for three decades, is in favor of choosing euthanasia as vital statement , an option that is allowed in their country and advised when the person is still their decision-making powers in good condition for the future.

Published in Spain by Editorial Platform, “We are our brain,” studying this body from conception to death, it has sold 400,000 copies in Holland and already released in countries like China, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic , Israel, Korea, Taiwan, Serbia, Hungary and the United States.

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