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developmental changes of functions/wiring in the brain   Message List  
Reply | Forward Message #1535 of 1997 |
Hi (((((((((((((((((Everyone))))))))))))))))))).

I remember seeing on television a while back, a special which demonstrated that
through medical/scientific testing (MRI's etc), "developmental changes in brain
functions/wiring of young children could be shown. Should have taken more notice
at the time grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Now the question i ask is does this
developmental process only occur during childhood, or with life experience is
wiring continually aftered? Next question is, does altering function /wiring or
biochemical changes cause "mental illness/a differing perception" or does
"mental illness/a differing perception" alter function /wiring and/or
biochemical balances in the brain?

Unfortunatyely, i know little of the hardwiring process. If i remember rightly,
our DNA comes with its own hardwiring, but surely it must follow that all
additional experience would either alter or reinforce that wiring?

Does anyone have any info on this???

Kind Regards

Elaine

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Hi (((((((((((((((((Everyone))))))))))))))))))). I remember seeing on television a while back, a special which demonstrated that through medical/scientific...
ELAINE
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Jan 28, 2007
4:06 am

Read Szazsz's The Meaning of Mind. Szasz is quite critical of the tendecy of neuroscience to analogize human brains to computers. Martin ... ...
Martin Kessler
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Jan 28, 2007
6:31 am

Dear Martin, Rather than merely a mechanical concept of mind/brain, it could perhaps be said that the mind/brain has much more of a creative imput, wiring the...
ELAINE
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Jan 28, 2007
7:24 am

Of course, "brain wiring" is a metaphor. Memory for which there is a chapter in The Meaning of Mind (Chapter 3: Memory: Fabricating the Past and the Future). ...
Martin Kessler
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Jan 29, 2007
12:28 am

... Brains are "wired" only metaphorically, and metaphors don't show up on brain scans. Scan machines are expensive toys, so physicians and researchers have to...
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Jan 28, 2007
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Yes, Mira. Yes. Always a pleasure to see your comments in print. Most people when they talk about things psychiatric/neruological use the pseudo scientific...
Martin Kessler
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