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Hob May 30, 2006 18:23:49
Replying to Littlestone

>'abnormal' brain functions might be similar to artificially induced abnormal brain functions?

Aye, if it weren't for the abnormal states, neuroscientists wouldn't know a fraction of what they've deduced about the normal* functioning of the brain.

I often wonder about how brain pathology would have been perceived back in prehistory. Given that trepanation seems to have originated back in the paleolithic, there must have been an awareness that the mushy stuff inside the skull has a link to behaviour, even if it was just the observation that a whack on the bonce can sometimes make people start to act strangely.

Here's some stuff about holes in the head in times gone by:
http://www.trepan.com/survey.html

*Please take the inverted commas as a given when I'm using the N-word and it's opposite.

R Rune
Rune May 30, 2006 19:04:51
Replying to Hob

>>>Please take the inverted commas as a given when I'm using the N-word and it's opposite.<<<

Neurotypical is a kinder one for the N-word I think, I've seen it in US literature but not over here, I find the N-word objectionable for many reasons.

There are some very interesting observations in the thread so far, particularly yours about the repetition and the introduction of gluten, Hob. Cows milk can also cause ataxia in some cases althgough I don't think it's so many cases as gluten.

There's also so much we don't know about the mushy grey stuff, too. Latest in thing is to take Omega 3 and 6 oils to create new synapses where none existed before which seems to be producing remarkable results across a broad spectrum of difficulties/illnesses.


Rune