![]() There are no rules there is no prescribed path of recovery every patient must discover or create his own motor and perceptual patterns, his own solutions to the challenges that face him and it is the function of a sensitive therapist to help him in this.Īnd in its broadest sense, neural Darwinism implies that we are destined, whether we wish it or not, to a life of particularity and self-development, to make our own individual paths through life. Similar considerations arise with regard to recover and rehabilitation after strokes and other injuries. ![]() When we try to envisage the neural basis of such individual learning, we might imagine a "population" of movements (and their neural correlates) being strengthened or pruned away by experience. Post-encephalitic syndrome was considered incurable until the discovery of the miracle drug L-DOPA, which in early 1967 was reported to have been used with great success on victims of Parkinson’s. Each baby experiments with different ways of reaching for objects and over the course of several months discovers or selects his own motor solutions. The illness and its cure are the subject of Penny Marshall’s new movie, Awakenings, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Even at a motor level, researchers have shown, an infant does not follow a set pattern of learning to walk or how to reach for something. ![]() ![]() “Individuality is deeply imbued in us from the very start, at the neuronal level. ![]()
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