José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena: Taking care of the intestinal flora after the excesses of the festive season
In our gut lives a collection of bacteria, fungi, archaic bacteria, viruses and yeasts. It is the gut microbiota, which regulates responses to stress, the immune system, mood and anxiety, satiety and food reward, neurodevelopmental, social and cognitive behaviours. Differences in [...]
Authoritarian leaders, progressive leaders
Alexander the Great made a direct attack on the Persian leader, who fled in panic and his army dispersed, fragmented. Hernán Cortés with only five horsemen charged at Aztec Cihuacóatl, knocked him down with one thrust and the army dispersed. Tito, the marshal, went on to another life and Yugoslavia fragmented; Saddam Hussein, liquidated, his people remained [...]
The elections, part one
Our brain was not built for us; it comes from a series of preserved adaptive successes, modules, parts, and systems that date back a long way in evolution, which explains why we are the way we are. What is more, the structure of our brain is common to all vertebrate animals. We cannot be so naive […]
How does the brain work?
Rafael Yuste, a Spaniard, at Columbia University in New York City from the programme that is studying the brain in the US, has been given ten years. So look at the simplifications that are working out there. "It's a kind of exploratory research, like reaching a new continent [...].
Comments in the media about our brains
“A team of researchers at Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology has created organic nanowires that simulate the functioning of biological synapses - the highways of our brains. The merit of the breakthrough is that they consume about the same energy as our own, about 1.23 femtojoules. “Now they «only» have to reduce the [...]
The depopulation of Spain
The countryside is becoming deserted due to a lack of economic profitability. We all know that some deserts or near-deserts were filled with inhabitants during the gold rush. Politicians say that villages need to be filled with services; here where I am, there are services... for those who remain, the elderly. Another paradox is that in [...]
Arsonists and rapists
We are surprised that a crocodile can be so tender as to carry its eggs from one place to another until its young hatch, or that a panther can be so loving and careful as to carry its young by the neck. In another scene, we see both animals displaying unusual ferocity. That is how […] works.
The genetics of human beings
Dr. José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena, a specialist in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, reflects on the genetic programming of human beings in the fourth of five videos made for PROA Comunicación. «New technologies take us away from our genetic programming. Our genetic programming is based on love, coexistence and nature». José Antonio [...]
The brain and neural networks
Dr. José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena, a specialist in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, dissects the brain and neural networks in the third of five videos made for PROA Comunicación. There is currently a crisis of creative solutions; formulas from the last century are being repeated in the political, pedagogical and cultural fields. The scientific advances on the [...]
The Mediterranean diet and physical exercise: scientific basis
Dr. José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena, a specialist in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, takes an in-depth look at the scientific foundations of the Mediterranean diet and physical exercise. "We are inundated with headlines about health and especially about what we should eat. An infinite variety of diets appear in book form and in headlines. In this book [...]