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vnwees
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 Posted - 04/16/2007 : 18:31:41
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Sorry for not posting in the right place the first time, but I just wrote to TT on the recent Painfree For Life book thread (thread, right? I'm not good with the lingo)about an interesting article in the May issue of Discover magazine. If anyone's interested, please read that thread.
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shawnsmith
Czech Republic
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 09:55:57
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what is the name of the article?
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Sarno-ize it!
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vnwees
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 16:42:13
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It's called "the elastic brain" and is about the research of a Dr. Michael Merzenich who is a neuroscience professor at University of Calif at San Francisco. Talks about harnessing plasticity, changing the way we view mental illness, schizophrenia, brain problems related to aging, etc. I went thru dramatic brain changes myself after the death of my son, which would be expected. What wasn't expected was eventually coming to believe that I could, in some ways at least, affect what my brain was doing and could aid in my recovery, much like sarno teaches. Will be interested in what you (or anyone else) thinks (if anything).
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wrldtrv
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 19:57:11
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Vicki,
This is a hot new subject--neuroplasticity. There's a new book out called, "The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge that deals with this subject. The old view was that only the brains of very young children were plastic; definitely not adults. This is called "localization", the idea that each part of the brain was responsible for a particular task and never another. Experiments with rats as well as brain damaged humans shows that this is not necessarily the case. If a set of neurons affecting a particular job are cut, the surrounding neurons are capable in certain cases of taking over. There are real life possibilities in this new paradigm. Therapies, drugs, all kinds of things are possible in the future. |
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art
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 20:08:37
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I find this a very encouraging thing...I know my brain absolutely changed following a very traumatic experience I had during a couple of weeks long fast...I suffered the worst panic attacks of my life, a reaction to the lack of food and certain other factors) and I remember thinking that well, at least when I got home (the fast took place under supervision in another state) and started eating again and resumed my life that the panic would go away...Instead I found myself living on the edge of panic for over a year. It was a deeply painful time in my life and I began to doubt I could ever get better..
Little by slow I've continued to recover though...I'm not back to where I was before the fast, but I'm getting there....Finding out about the plasiticity of the human brain has been most helpful to me...There no question in my mind that slowly my brain is healing.. |
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wrldtrv
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Posted - 04/17/2007 : 22:56:06
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| Art--I'm truly amazed that a two-week supervised fast could have such dramatic results. My God, what kind of fast was it? |
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art
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Posted - 04/18/2007 : 07:44:05
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| Water fast. It's a long story. We'll call it a perfect storm of physical and emotional factors...Getting through this has given me a renewed faith in my own inner strength, and both the body's and mind's amazing power to heal. |
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The Elastic Brain and Dr. Sarno's work?
