tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post6089879402997956709..comments2024-02-11T18:16:53.445-08:00Comments on Janov's Reflections on the Human Condition: The Simple Truth is Revolutionary: Rats to Humans, the Importance of Animal StudiesArthur Janovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16709863014923629409noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-4985307857170758432012-05-25T16:21:47.764-07:002012-05-25T16:21:47.764-07:00Andrew: My guess is he once the die is cast there...Andrew: My guess is he once the die is cast there can only be tweaks here and there. I don't see any major structural changes after that but you never know what neurology will find. artArthur Janovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18009571728800026496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-63927713044218568692012-05-25T13:46:05.427-07:002012-05-25T13:46:05.427-07:00Hello Art,
Not so much a question but one of my s...Hello Art,<br /><br />Not so much a question but one of my speculative thoughts. <br /><br />My "question" is that the brain develops like a concrete layer cake (and I'm talking about information-architecture - not biology alone). <br /><br />So I'm suggesting that once the first-line layer is developed it becomes set in it's architecture, and then so forth for the mid-brain. So, as the mid-brain develops from the brain-stem after infancy the brain-stem does not then significantly develop, because at this point it is essentially rigidified (think: set concrete). Or maybe the architecture of the brain-stem does go on evolving at the later stage? My loose guess is that it doesn't.Andrew D Atkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04492591375757227409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-17762766927723062692012-05-25T08:07:20.276-07:002012-05-25T08:07:20.276-07:00Andrew: It seems like the hippocampus is one of th...Andrew: It seems like the hippocampus is one of the few structures that go on evolving for the rest of our lives. can you make your question more precise? artArthur Janovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18009571728800026496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-30026418334750555782012-05-23T08:29:11.361-07:002012-05-23T08:29:11.361-07:00It's interesting that every so often an experi...It's interesting that every so often an experiment comes along to build on a previous one. This one with the mice builds on the famous one's using baby monkey's and real, wire frame and cloth Mothers but also recognises the important aspects of being touched rather than just sitting with something soft.planespotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315637682741508786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-47980627236727693432012-05-23T03:13:14.688-07:002012-05-23T03:13:14.688-07:00Once the mid-brain is developed, does it stop deve...Once the mid-brain is developed, does it stop developing alogether (by nature - not just neurosis) when the neocortex starts fully developing?..interesting thought. Maybe once a certain time has passed the mid-brain's core developmental status becomes rigidly locked down, so brain development thereafter is pure "add on" from the neocortex *only*. <br />(But, of course, the neocortex's development should be intimately related to the earlier brains, of which are surely the foundation that the neocortex develops from).<br /><br />If this is so, then there's no escape from the lost development of the earlier brains of which may have occurred from deprivation. Not even later pain-integration will provide for it [removing your neurosis is not removing your lost developmental history]. The architecture is fixed - if it is. I don't know if it really is though. Does anyone know?<br /><br />It would also suggest that you can know if a person is ever going to really 'grow up' from a very young age. Because the major developmental maturity (or not!) is already completed and set by the age of 6 years or so. <br /><br />...hhhmmm, and maybe an emotinally simple mind (due to emotional deprivation) directly understimulates the neocortex, and likewise fails to drive the neocortex's proper development in childhood? I remember you noting a while back, Art, that love increases the neural density of the brain. Maybe this effect is in part related to direct intra-brain under-stimulation? Who knows, eh?Andrew D Atkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04492591375757227409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3420173096635836108.post-86719461765368120202012-05-22T07:24:06.097-07:002012-05-22T07:24:06.097-07:00That is amazing stuff. So all those kids who are s...That is amazing stuff. So all those kids who are still left to cry out at night are being so damaged so early. My older brother died from terrible Spinadifida only a few days after he was born. I can imagine that my Mothers very anxious state (only her needs and feelings are important) would have reduced the folic acid in her body to very low levels so that his fate was probably sealed within the first few hours after conception. A tragic event which may Parents have hardly ever talked about. I remember being in the car driving past a very specific gate in Herefordshire when my Mother told my sister and I for the first time. The imprtance of that memory is only now clear. I was about 11. The treatment I recieved as a child was so bound up with the time I spent in the womb and also the time my Brother spent in the womb. At eleven to discover one had an older brother and to still not recognise how his death influenced my life and how my Parents treated me. Not very well.<br /><br />I have a God Son who has Asbergers and he spent the first few weeks in an incubator after he was born. How much of his Asbergers started there and before and was then compounded by a very Narcisistic Mother.planespotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315637682741508786noreply@blogger.com