Your Brain on Diving (eBook)

Klaus M. Stiefel was born in 1972 in Klagenfurt, Austria, and grew up in the vicinity of Vienna. In 1998 he graduated in microbiology at the University of Vienna. In 2002, the doctorate in zoology (neurobiology) followed at the University of Vienna and at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main. This was followed by research stays in San Diego, Japan and Sydney. The focus of his research is neurobiology and recently evolutionary biology and fish ecology. Since 2014, Klaus has been living in the Philippines as an author, dive instructor, nature photographer and independent scientist. Klaus dives the reefs of the Philippines with both rebreather and mixed gas at depths up to 100 meters. When he dives so deep that deep intoxication would take him completely out of reality, he responsibly packs non-narcotic helium in his tanks. Klaus Stiefel writes articles for "Scientific American Mind" and its German edition "Spektrum der Wissenschaft - Geist & Gehirn" and contributes regularly with texts and photos to various blogs and books ("Taucherwelt Wracktauchen Philippinen" by Stefan Baehr, Felicitas Hübner Verlag 2017). He has also published "Sex, Drugs and Scuba Diving", a marine biology-popular science book; The "Camera and the Brain", a book about brain research and photography.

Diving and Brains: A Brief Intro
Inert Gas Narcosis
What Nitrogen Does to Brain Cells
Nitrogen-Altered Brain Waves
Whale Brains
Apnea
Breathing and the Brain
Oxygen Use
Fear and Loathing Underwater
The Hindbrain Again
Badjao Superpower
Human Free Diving Evolution
About the Author
Literature