Author Archives: Dr. Ramakanta

An Andhra man, working in West Bengal, gets a 100% coronary block in Odisha while driving a train at 100 miles per hour. ( A rare moment in a railway doctor’s life) At 56, half of my life on this Earth has been spent as a railway doctor. Every thing that can happen in aContinue reading “The Rescue”

An average human brain contains 100 billion neurons. Neuroscientist have counted it. It’s exactly 86 billion. Still 14 billion short of a round 100. But a baboon’s brain counts exactly 14 billion neurons. So we are a baboon’s brain short of the magical figure of 100B. Human brain weighs 1.5 kg maximum. But an elephantContinue reading “The amazing human cortex.”

  How to cool my Amygdala, a prehistoric legacy that has probably outlived its utility ? “Anybody can become Angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the Right person and to the Right degree and at the Right time and for the Right purpose, and in the Right way – that isContinue reading “Amygdala Hijack”

Our social relationship is not a matter of heart but these 5 chemicals. When a mother hears her 7-day old baby crying in hunger, milk is let down from her bosom automatically without control. We know, that is OXYTOCIN working. But most of us probably do not know the rest. Our social relationship is not aContinue reading “Not a matter of Heart.”

The amount of data printed in to a new born baby is simply enormous. It’s a 3 billion letter genetic code transfer from parents to their children. Every time you see a pregnant lady walking, be assured, she is assembling the biggest amount of information that can put all the super computers of our worldContinue reading “The walking Super Computers”