Ask me anything.

[Diane]

"Ask me anything" is a new thread in The Genius Brain forum.

I feel very bold posting this new thread. I have browsed through the Encyclopedia of the Human Brain a bit, and it seems to me that excerpting long bits of it will be good for my own brain, and likely others' too.

So the concept is, ask me a brain related question, and I will try to (energy and time and willingness permitting) bring out answers from within the books. I know already we can trust anything Ramachandran has to say, or has edited with his finetooth mental/cognitive comb.

Cheers,
Diane

[bernard]

Diane,

That's a great idea!
I will have certainly some motor questions!

Perhaps I will already find the "table" of the book and post it there?

[Diane]

Good idea Bernard.
Diane

[bernard]

Here is alink to the index:
(but the abstracts are empty:sad
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...rks/0122272102

and the content

Contents
J.A. White, Action Potential. J.N. Giedd, E.A. Molloy, and J. Blumenthal, Adolescent Brain Maturation. J.L. Saver, Aggression. L.L. Beason-Held and B. Horwitz, Aging Brain. J.J. Marotta and M. Behrmann, Agnosia. S.Z. Rapcsak and P.M. Beeson, Agraphia. J.W. Olney, Alcohol Damage to the Brain. V.J. Brown and E.M. Bowman, Alertness.R.B. Friedman, Alexia. R.G. Morris and C.L. Worsley, Neuropschology of Alzheimer's Disease. C.R. Long and J.R. Averill, Anger. L. Tabo Connor and L.K. Obler, Anomia. B.J. Casey, N. Yeung, and J. Fossella, Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Role of. E. Vermetten, D.S. Charney, and J.D. Bremner, Anxiety. M.T. Sarno, Aphasia. K.M. Heilman and L.J. Gonzalez-Rothi, Apraxia. D.J. Fellerman, Area V2. R.T. Marrocco and B.A. Field, Arousal. D. Partridge, Artificial Intelligence. N.A. Baumann and D. Pham-Dinh, Astrocytes. S.P. Vecera and S.J. Luck, Attention. H.A. Buchtel, Auditory Agnosia. R.J. Zatorre, Auditory Cortex. W.A. Yost, Auditory Perception. E. Courchesne and K. Pierce, Autism. F. Mor and I.R. Cohen, Autoimmune Diseases. K.S. Rockland, Axon. B. Crosson, L. Maron, A.B. Moore, and L. Grande, Basal Ganglia. F. Sluyter, G. van Luijtelaar, E. de Geus, and W.E. Crusio, Behavioral Neurogenetics.D.L. Delahanty and J.K. Cremeans, Behavioral Neuroimmunology. P.B. Dews, Behavioral Pharmacology. J. Vaid, Bilingualism. R. Gevirtz, Biofeedback. G. Goldenberg, Body Perception Disorders. W.I. Lipkin, T. Briese, and M. Hornig, Borna Disease Virus. M-M. Mesulam, Brain Anatomy and Networks. P. Bach-y-Rita, Brain Damage, Recovery from. H.K.M. Yusuf and K. Islam, Brain Development. K. Maiese, Brain Disease, Organic. M. Keidel and P. Stude, Brain Lesions. W.W. Blessing, Brainstem. M. Crank and P.T. Fox, Broca's Area. C.A. Meyers, Cancer Patients, Cognitive Function. A.J. Friedhoff and R. Silva, Catecholamines. B.J. Knowlton, Categorization. M. Molinari, Cerebellum. J.A. Jane, Jr., A.S. Dumont, D.E. Couture, K.M. Webb, D.B. Ellegala, H. Dayoub, and N.F. Kassell, Cerebral Circulation. D.F. Cechetto and J.C. Topolovec, Cerebral Cortex. D.S. Liebeskind, Cerebral Edema. S. Watkins and A. Rosenberg, Cerebral Palsy. C.M. Filley, Cerebral White Matter Disorders. J.R. Absher, Cerebrovascular Disease.Y. Koutcherov, K.W.S. Ashwell, and G. Paxinos, Chemical Neuroanatomy. M. Gabriel, L. Burhans, A. Talk, and P. Scalf, Cingulate Cortex. C.A. Fuller and P.M. Fuller, Circadian Rhythms. R.E. Clark, Classical Conditioning. N. Raz, Cognitive Aging. J.F. Kihlstrom and L. Park, Cognitive Psychology, Overview. S.A. Kolakowsky-Hayner and J.S. Kreutzer, Cognitive Rehabilitation. P. Gouras, Color Processing and Color Processing Disorders. G.H. Jacobs, Color Vision.M.S. Gazzaniga, Consciousness. R.J. Brown and M.A. Ron, Conversion. K. Baynes, Corpus Callosum. A.B. Butler, Cranial Nerves. M.A. Runco, Creativity. A.W. Kaszniak, Dementia. E.V. Cardemil, Depression. L.A. Taylor and I. Creese, Dopamine. M. Bertini, Dreaming. H.B. Coslett, Dyslexia. P.L. Nunez, EEG. F.H. Lopes da Silva, Electrical Potentials. R. Adolphs and A.S. Heberlein, Emotion. C. Abbadie and G.W. Pasternak, Endorphins and Their Receptors. B. Schmitz, Epilepsy. J.S. George, Event Related Potentials. H.J. Jerison, Evolution of the Brain. C.J. Bruce and H.R. Friedman, Eye Movements. L. Puelles and J.L.R. Rubenstein, Forebrain. L.A. Kemenoff, B.L. Miller, and J.H. Kramer, Frontal Lobe. R.L. Savoy, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI). S.R. Kleppner and A.J. Tobin, GABA. C.A. Messam, J. Hou, N. Janabi, M.C. Monaco, M. Gravell, and E.O. Major, Glia. J. Epstein, E. Stern, and D. Silbersweig, Hallucinations. J.R. Flanagan and R.S. Johansson, Hand Movements. S. Diamond and G.J. Urban, Headaches. J.F. Brugge and M.A. Howard III, Hearing. R. Hertwig and P.M. Todd, Heuristics. J.C. Glover, Hindbrain. I. Grant, HIV Infection, Neurocognitive Complications of. P.M. Lledo, Homeostatic Mechanisms. J. Vaid, Humor and Laughter. P. Black and C. Ohaegbulam, Hydrocephalus. J.P. Card and L. Rinaman, Hypothalamus.J.C. Mazziotta and R.S.J. Frackowiak, Imaging: Brain Mapping Methods. J.L. Martinez, Jr., S.A.K. Harvey, A. Martinez, and E. Barea-Rodriguez, Information Processing. A. Henik and T.H. Carr, Inhibition. R.J. Sternberg and J.C. Kaufman, Intelligence. B.A. Yi and L.Y. Jan, Ion Channels. H. Tager-Flusberg, Language Acquisition. R.C. Martin, M.R. Newsome, and H. Vu, Language and Lexical Processing. D. Kaplan, Language Disorders. D. Kaplan, Language, Neural Basis of. J.B. Hellige, Laterality. S. Coren, Left-Handedness. J.L. Price, Limbic System. P.N. Johnson-Laird, Logic and Reasoning. R.F. Kaplan, Lyme Encephalopathy. E.H. Taylor, Manic Depressive Illness. A.R. Mayes, Memory Disorders, Organic. K.B. McDermott, Memory, Explicit and Implicit. R.P. Kesner, Memory Neurobiology. J. Jonides, D.T. Badre, and T.D. Wager, Memory, Neuroimaging. J.A. Lucas, Memory, Overview. S.C. Redden, S.R. Hooper, and M. Pope, Mental Retardation. R. Parasuraman and D. Caggiano, Mental Workload. G. Stoll, S. Jander, and M. Schroeter, Microglia. D.L. Oliver and D. Waitzman, Midbrain. M. Sanchez del Rio and S. Silberstein, Migraine. J.T. Barth, J.R. Freeman, and D.K. Broshek, Mild Head Injury. H.L. Laurer, D.F. Meaney, S.S. Margulies, and T.K. McIntosh, Modeling Brain Injury/Trauma. E. Chemerinski and R.G. Robinson, Mood Disorders. P. Verghese and B.R. Beutter, Motion Processing. S.P. Wise and R. Shadmehr, Motor Control. J.H. Kaas and I. Stepniewska, Motor Cortex.P.C. Wong, D.L. Price, and J. Rothstein, Motor Neuron Disease. E. Hazeltine and R. Ivry, Motor Skill. J.F. Soechting and M. Flanders, Movement Regulation. J.R. Alger, MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). L.J. Lobeck, Multiple Sclerosis. B.E. Stein, P. Laurienti, M.T. Wallace, and T.R. Stanford, Multisensory Integration. J.M. Groh and U. Werner-Reiss, Multisensory Integration, Neural Basis of. D.W. Perry, Music and the Brain. R.J. Naylor, Nausea and Vomiting. J.H. Kaas, Neocortex. P.S. Eriksson, Nerve Cells and Memory. J.B. Angevine, Jr., Nervous System, Organization of. P. Sajda, Neural Networks. D. Kondziolka, E. Tyler-Kabara, and C. Achim, Neural Transplantation.C.M> Filley, Neuroanatomy. M.H. Ratner, R.G. Feldman, and R.F. White, Neurobehavioral Toxicology. L.J. Martin, Neurodegenerative Disorders. J.R. Evans, Neurofeedback. B.R. Ransom and A.M. Brown, Neuroglia. G. Ganis and S.M. Kosslyn, Neuroimaging. M.E. Martone and M.H. Ellisman, Neuron. B. Ahren, Neuropeptides and Islet Function. E.A. Workman, Neuropharmacology. D. Bavelier and H. Neville, Neuro-Plasticity, Developmental. A.P. Nelson and M.M. Searl, Neuropsychological Assessment. L.C. Hartlage, Neuropsychological Assessment, Pediatric. J.H. Schwartz, Neurotransmitters. L.M. Mendell, Nociceptors. C. Drouin and J.P. Tassin, Norepinephrine. K. Wynn, Number Processing and Arithmetic. P. Williams, Object Perception. E.A. DeYoe, Occipital Lobe. R.L. Doty, Olfaction.C.M. Knapp, Opiates. H.H. Zingg, Oxytocin. A.D. Craig, Pain. D. Fishbain, Pain and Psychopathology.M.D. Yahr, Parkinson's Disease. W.R. Uttal, Pattern Recognition. L.J. Martin, Peptides, Hormones, and the Brain, and Spinal Cord. A.V. Krassioukov, Peripheral Nervous System. H. Flor, Phantom Limb Pain. M. Macmillan, Phineas Gage. A. Kertesz and D.G. Munoz, Pick's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. R.J. Morecraft and E.H. Yeterian, Prefrontal Cortex. A.D. Wagner and W. Koutstaal, Priming. H.A. Kretzschmar, Prion Diseases. R.E. Mayer, Problem Solving. E.H.F. De Haan, Prosopagnosia. D. Presti, Psychoactive Drugs. S. Campeau, Psychoneuroendocrinology.D.L. Felten and M.E. Maida, Psychoneuroimmunology. D. Lykken, Psychophysiology. V. Mann, Reading Disorders, Developmental. R.P.N. Rao, Receptive Field. H. Sivers, J. Schooler, and J.J. Freyd, Recovered Memories. D.T. Cerutti, Reinforcement, Reward, and Punishment. H. Kazemi and D.C. Johnson, Respiration. J.E. Dowling, Retina.L.H. Finkel and S.C. Yen, Salience. D.V. Jeste and L.T.E. Zorrilla, Schizophrenia. M. Grossman and P.L. Koenig, Semantic Memory. J.P. Rauschecker, Sensory Deprivation. L.S. Allen and R.A. Gorski, Sex Differences in the Human Brain.J.D. Baldwin and J.I. Baldwin, Sexual Behavior. S.L. Zup and N.G. Forger, Sexual Differentiation, Hormones and. L. Regev, C. Avina, and W. O'Donohue, Sexual Dysfunction. M.S. George and J.P. Lorberbaum, Sexual Function. G. Vallar, Short-Term Memory. C.A. Kushida, Sleep Disorders. B. Landau, Spatial Cognition. R.L. De Valois, K.K> De Valois, Spatial Vision. K.R. Kluender, Speech. D.J. Newport and C.B. Nemeroff, Stress. B. McEwen and S. Lupien, Stress: Hormonal and Neural Aspects. A.R. Zazulia, Stroke. B.S. Brodsky and J.J. Mann, Suicide. B.E. Stein, M.T. Wallace, and T.R. Stanford, Superior Colliculus. M. Baudry, Synapses and Synaptic Transmission and Integration. F. Varoqueaux and N. Brose, Synaptogenesis. C.L. Reed, Tactile Perception. M.A. Barry and M.E. Frank, Taste. H.A. Buchtel, Temporal Lobes. C. Ohye, Thalamus and Thalamic Damage. D.L. Harrington and R.M. Rao, Time Passage, Neural Substrates.V. Eapen and M.M. Robertson, Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. T.J. Collier and J.R. Sladek, Jr., Transplantation. J.F. Kihlstrom, Unconscious, The. E. Wertman and K.M. Heilman, Unilateral Neglect. D.E. Scott, Ventricular System. M. Sarter and J.P. Bruno, Vigilance. K.E. Anderson and J.M. Silver, Violence and the Brain. R. Shapley and N. Rubin, Vision: Brain Mechanisms. M.G.P. Rosa, Visual Cortex. R.D. Jones and D. Tranel, Visual Disorders. A.E. Wiencken-Barger and V.A. Casagrande, Visual System Development and Neural Activity. E.M. Saffran, Wernicke's Area. S. Della Sala and R.H. Logie, Working Memory.

[Diane]

Hurray Bernard!
I looked up ideomotor movement in the index.. alas, there is only a line about it in conjunction with apraxia. But look at all the other great stuff.
Diane

[bernard]

I will search for ideomotor movement.

[bernard]

Exp Brain Res. 2005 Apr;162(3):346-56. Epub 2004 Dec 15. Related Articles, Links
Intention-based and stimulus-based mechanisms in action selection.

Waszak F, Wascher E, Keller P, Koch I, Aschersleben G, Rosenbaum DA, Prinz W.

Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Amalienstr. 33, 80799, Munich, Germany. f.waszak@gmx.net

Human actions can be classified as being either more stimulus-based or more intention-based. According to the ideomotor framework of action control, intention-based actions primarily refer to anticipated action effects (in other words response-stimulus [R-S] bindings), whereas stimulus-based actions are commonly assumed to be more strongly determined by stimulus-response [S-R] bindings. We explored differences in the functional signatures of both modes of action control in a temporal bisection task. Participants either performed a choice response by pressing one out of two keys in response to a preceding stimulus (stimulus-based action), or pressed one out of two keys to produce the next stimulus (intention-based action). In line with the ideomotor framework, we found intention-based actions to be shifted in time towards their anticipated effects (the next stimulus), whereas stimulus-based actions were shifted towards their preceding stimulus. Event-related potentials (ERPs) in the EEG revealed marked differences in action preparation for the two tasks. The data as a whole provide converging evidence for functional differences in the selection of motor actions as a function of their triggering conditions, and support the notion of two different modes of action selection, one being exogenous or mainly stimulus-driven, the other being endogenous or mainly intention-driven.

PMID: 15599722 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[flaviovitor]

Hello Bernard and mainly Diane :angel: ,


So, I do will ask! Brain has become my new addiction.

In another thread, you both talked about Dorko and his ideomotor thoughts, problems that Diane classified as 'inside out', i.e. the problem arise within the person, so, treatment must be inside out as well. The outside in treatment would be incomplete or paliative.
I read the two texts of Dorko too, but found them too difficult to understand. Will keep trying, just like JOHNNIE WALKER!

From the above, I ask you Diane and why not Bernard:

-before coming to SOMASIMPLE, I was a bit like Sunderland and I must confess, like Descartes. Now, my thoughts are very different. What is there of newest in movement treatment as an inside out approach?

-Is the inside out approach so simple, like simple contact? Or feldenkrais and Hanna could be considered an inside out?

Neuromatrix, mirror therapy, recognition hand laterality, etc are NEW! Is there anything else? Am I stopped in the time?


Flávio.

[Diane]

Hi Flavio,

Is the inside out approach so simple, like simple contact? Or feldenkrais and Hanna could be considered an inside out?

I think Feldenkrais and Hannah are inside out too. Barrett Dorko had the idea for Simple Contact after he did a 4-day workshop with Feldenkrais. My experience with Somatics was that it was inside out, even though a detailed map was provided i.e., the cat stretch series. Tai Chi, yoga, all these things could be catagorized as inside out motor or auto neuromodulation, even though they provide detailed maps too. No one is moving anything except the person's brain inside their own "spacesuit" or body. No else one is "neuromodulating" them. They are even more "inside out" in that way than "simple contact", which requires minimal simple contact from another individual.

Neuromatrix, mirror therapy, recognition hand laterality, etc are NEW! Is there anything else? Am I stopped in the time?

There is more. Much, much more. I gather that only the surface of this exploration has been scratched so far.
Cheers,
Diane

[flaviovitor]

So Diane,

could you show me some more examples of newest treatments? Be them inside out ('hands in' ??) or outside in (although the latter has not convinced me so much anymore... part because of the guilty of SOMASIMPLE)

I visited the website that was in the paper posted by Bernard in another thread:

http://www.cingulumneurosciences.org (how the Cingulate NeuroTherapeutics) amongst other things.



Flávio.

[Diane]

Flavio, I think you are ahead of me in applications. That link is great. I don't think concepts are as far away from neuromatrix theory as Vogt seems to assert.
Diane

[flaviovitor]

Diane,

I am not sure about your statement. It is a fact that I really know some concepts you don't, but the opposite is also true. I am not interested anymore in 'outside in' / 'hands on' therapies. With the wide field of neuroscience and with its better perspectives, how not to change from one to another? 'Inside out' / 'hands-in' therapies are my passion now. But see, I am not saying that I do not use anymore 'hands-on' techniques.

Before argumenting with you all here about that 'global technique' called GPR (Global Postural Reeducation) or if you prefer, PGR, I have grown too much in things that I was not prepared to involve myself in. Of course I knew them, but I really was not prepared to accept them at all.

This way, I underpin my question: Do you have some more examples of new treatments means, beside mirror therapy, lateral hand recognition, virtual body exercises, pain neuroscience education, graded and pacing activities?


Kind regards,


Flávio.

[Diane]

Do you have some more examples of new treatments means, beside mirror therapy, lateral hand recognition, virtual body exercises, pain neuroscience education, graded and pacing activities?

No, I think that about covers the gamut, Flavio.
,
Diane

[flaviovitor]

Diane,

I have just remembered another therapy: sensory discrimination. It can be used for and is being heavily studied in patients with repetitive strain injury and focal hand distonia. Of course it can be added with the other therapies stated above.


Flávio.

[bernard]

Flavio,

The changes are happenning ever "internally" but may be triggered by an external mean.

Simple Contact is close to Feldenkreis but uses an autonomic/automatic lever.
Felkenkreis, Hanna focuse their approaches to awareness.