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With the statute of limitations monstercockz had expired long ago, now I can describe my first experience in learning about the human brain. When I was a kid, I did not get a chance to spend time with my father when he was very busy in neurosurgery in South Florida. Apparently, he also acknowledges this shortcoming in our relationship to one day he gave a solution; He invited me to the operating room to see his tumor removed from the base of one's brain. What a way to spend Saturday afternoon, especially the fact that I was thirteen years old at the time. I quickly made the trip to the operating room of my weekend monstercockz routine. I believe that my father attempted to arrange surgery on Saturday so I could participate. The only problem is that although standing on a chair, I find it hard to actually see what is happening. Resourceful monstercockz as my father, he made a risky solution. He encouraged me to "rub monstercockz on." In the age of fourteen, I really support my father when he performed the procedure removes brain tumors or blood clots in the aneurysm cut. Needless to say, I am careful not to share this experience with my friends.
My work often involves attaching a flat metal "brain retractor," thin to provide enough gentle pressure on the brain, my father do his job. Typically, these procedures will take time, so over time, my father explained the function monstercockz of a specific part of the brain when we are active. "This area," he said, "is called Broca's area, named after Pierre-Paul Broca, monstercockz a French graduate student in 1861 determined monstercockz that the area of speech control." He described parts The remaining areas of the brain in the same details, always a bit of color woven into the history described.
These early experiences give me a rich understanding and expansion of the brain, at the time very impressive in my life. The idea that specific parts of the brain are dedicated to specific functions have been enhanced with the brain research I pursued in college and is one of the main themes of the first edition of my in the Journal of Neurosurgery. Medical schools continue to emphasize the notion that specific parts of the brain are "assigned" to the special functions, and this sentiment is certainly popular during my years of training neural . Fact that neurologists often functional anatomy of the brain,
"Stroke by stroke." That is, when a patient is hospitalized for stroke in a specific area of the brain, correlations with physical disabilities will show what areas of the brain activity breaks subserved damage.
Relationship structure / function starts clear, at least for me in the late 1980s when I began to be aware that some patients will recover significant function of a specific area after a stroke even when no changes were observed monstercockz in the image of their research. So, while the patient's MRI showed monstercockz continued losses, for example, a part of the brain controls the left hand, not often, the brain will "cure", an observation that is not uncommon among neurologists, therapists, and the general population.
Michael, a 58-year-old graphic designer from North Carolina came to me in 1988 he reported that fourteen months before his visit, he has developed a surprising start is not capable of talking. "I know what I want to say, but I can not produce the words," he told a perfectly smoothly. My first thought was that he had undergone a "TIA" or event transient ischemia, characterized by a decrease in blood supply to a particular area of the brain. But when it continues, he reveals that his remarks had been hurt at least six months after the attack. There is nothing "clear" about it. We consider an MRI brain scan performed two months monstercockz before his visit at our clinic, and there, monstercockz for all to see, evidence of serious damage and loss of tissue in the region not only speech , but in the surrounding area related to motor control monstercockz face and right arm. However, tests showed he did not have any deficit. What happens? Apparently, his brain is not "good", the area of his stroke damaged his MRI revealed as clear.
Obviously my brain has adapted, that is, his brain started to use alternative path to rehabilitation, an idea was considered weird, even in the late 1980s Ability of the brain to change and reorganize itself monstercockz and its function is called the nervous system, and it is a gift equal to nerve cells, our ability to generate brain cells New for the duration of our lives. The nervous system gives us