For centuries the human brain was thought to be a fairly fixed and unregenerative organ that, if injured or diseased, is subject to only very limited recovery. In his new book, “The Brain’s Way of Healing”, Norman Doidge shows how the new science of neuroplasticity is changing that belief. He chronicles the growing understanding that the human brain is in fact capable of much more significant self-repair and healing. Not only that, but much of the healing–for conditions that range from Parkinson’s disease, to autism, to stroke, to traumatic head injury–can be stimulated by conscious habits of thought and action, by teaching the brain to essentially “rewire itself.”
A prospective study, published in the November 6th issue of Nature, which followed 110 children from birth to age 3 years, showed that those who had a subsequent diagnosis of ASD started life with relatively normal attention to others’ eyes. However, their eye...
A study including more than 80,000 Norwegian children found that folic acid supplementation early in pregnancy is associated with a 40% reduction in the risk of developing severe autism. However, there was no association found between maternal folic acid...
April is National Autism Awareness Month - a good time to take another look at Autism and compounded medication currently being used in its treatment. In 2010 the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stated that autism affects 1 in every 110 American children. Just...
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional cookies Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
