Does anyone believe in Neuroregeneration or Neuroplasticity

[Clintos]

Sorry if this does not makes sense:

Definition:

Neuroregeneration - refers to the regrowth or repair of nervous tissues, cells or cell products. Such mechanisms may include generation of new neurons, glia, axons, myelin, or synapses.

Neuroplasticity - is the process in which your brain's neural synapses and pathways are altered as an effect of environmental, behavioral and neural changes.

Say for example a person has a neuro pathway that allows them to move their left arm to throw a baseball. Then, they have a stroke and are unable to throw a baseball, but they do rehab and are then able to throw a baseball again. What has happened is that the brain found a new route to perform this task.

If this is possible for people who suffer a stroke and throw a baseball, could a person with autism force their social neuro pathways to reroute and fire appropriately.

 

[Clintos]

Here is something I like and wrote it from a movie/youtube video

What I do is I sometime rewrite things from movies/you video in order to become a better spelling and faster typer.

I know it has alot of mistakes in it but here it is:

Your brain is like a circuit switch. Once you believe you are something, you actually embody it, you embody that feeling. If you were, for God forbid, in a coma and you wake up, and you didn’t really have a memory of who you were and you were told you were a navy seal, and that you were told that they want you back now, when you’re healthy. Do you think you would act differently, conduct yourself differently, and have a different self-concept of who you are? Then if you were told you were a piano instructor? Being successful in life, is all about having the proper belief system in who you are. If you truly believing that you are someone unique, that you are someone special. If you truly believe inside of you that you are one of the most successful people in the world, you would be totally different, then if you were like, I hope I’m good. Your expression will be totally different, your tone of voice, you will talk in a more convincing fashion, you will use your natural voice instead of a scripted one. You’ll be more real and more relatable. Our brain is like a circuit, so if we introduce it with proper wiring, you are going to go straight to your target. If you are unsure about who you are, then your dreams and goals will never become a reality. Everyone has mental doubts in life and internal conflicts, even the most successful people that you look up to. But they don’t live there, it is how you handle those thoughts in that exact moment and how you overwhelm them with positive actions and that comes with the up most confidence in yourself, that you are better then the moment.

 

[OkRad]

Here is something I like and wrote it from a movie/youtube video

What I do is I sometime rewrite things from movies/you video in order to become a better spelling and faster typer.

I know it has alot of mistakes in it but here it is:

Your brain is like a circuit switch. Once you believe you are something, you actually embody it, you embody that feeling. If you were, for God forbid, in a coma and you wake up, and you didn’t really have a memory of who you were and you were told you were a navy seal, and that you were told that they want you back now, when you’re healthy. Do you think you would act differently, conduct yourself differently, and have a different self-concept of who you are? Then if you were told you were a piano instructor? Being successful in life, is all about having the proper belief system in who you are. If you truly believing that you are someone unique, that you are someone special. If you truly believe inside of you that you are one of the most successful people in the world, you would be totally different, then if you were like, I hope I’m good. Your expression will be totally different, your tone of voice, you will talk in a more convincing fashion, you will use your natural voice instead of a scripted one. You’ll be more real and more relatable. Our brain is like a circuit, so if we introduce it with proper wiring, you are going to go straight to your target. If you are unsure about who you are, then your dreams and goals will never become a reality. Everyone has mental doubts in life and internal conflicts, even the most successful people that you look up to. But they don’t live there, it is how you handle those thoughts in that exact moment and how you overwhelm them with positive actions and that comes with the up most confidence in yourself, that you are better then the moment.

I do and I don't. I think our brains want to think we can be really smart, but the brain can't really handle itself. It;s always messing up big time and refuses to admit it's going to be a pile of useless sludge.

I find my brain is not my ally. It's all over the place. ANd I see that NTs are in the same sitation.

I read somewhere that the consciousness developed because the brain could not handle itself. Read The Soul Machine. I would have liked to have had hte brain without the consciousness.

 

[Clintos]

You see I have schizo-affective and according to the stuff I read it says that people with delusions and dementia have a higher likely hood of developing alzheimers. I think my cognition is bad now wait until I am 70 plus. I feel we can learn new things even when we are very old and this will keep alzheimers at bay. But, unfortunately we may have no choice in the matter and it could be genetics.

 

[Nitro]

I stumbled across my autism while researching my neoroplasticity during the recovery phase of my TBI. My pros and I are both amazed at how much progress I have made post injury.I was dragged all the way back to an infantile state after taking my hit.
My brain has sought other channels to relearn reading,compensating for short term memory deficits and other methods to improve my overall functionality. I got a left frontal precortex hematoma that pretty much should have rendered me to a lifetime of a wheelchair user that was nothing more than a vegetable. Well,sorry for my pros combined luck,that wasn't the case for me.

Having experienced this firsthand.I find it very fascinating to see how far a brain will go to put itself back in order when the chips are down.

The nature of my injuries left my long term memory intact. My brain now uses longer term memory strategies to cue short term events when necessary.I honestly feel that my type of thinking is primarily a rear brained event,which could lead others on the path to where autism resides in the brain.The other part that I feel strongly about is that my being autistic had a lot to do with my successes and will continue to improve as time moves along.

The only part that concerns me is that my version of autism is supposed to drive me to psychosis near the end,but I'm not sure anyone will be able to tell that I made the transition

 

[pax]

Yes and no. Neural regeneration does not always work or work completely - they can reattach limbs, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Some spinal injuries can recover, depending on severity. Some stroke victims can recover movement etc, but it often takes a lot of time and work.

I find the neuroplasticity issue is a lot fuzzier. I have heard of people born - literally- with half a brain who only found out when they had a brain scan - the other parts of their brain had taken up the slack. There are also children who have parts of their brain removed to stop seizures, and the same thing happens. This doesn't happen with adults, though.

I think autistic people can and do improve some of our issues, but I think a lot of this is learning different ways of approaching an issue, like wearing earplugs ie behavioural. I don't believe we can rewire our brain to be NT any more than the average NT can rewire their brain to be someone like Daniel Tammet.

 

[Nitro]

This doesn't happen with adults, though.

The schools of thought have changed on plasticity in adult brains. Plasticity although slowed down after development is present during your entire lifetime as a normal repair protocol. External influences such as injuries can be a factor that determines whether the brain chooses to reroute some wiring,or let the connection stay in a failed mode.

I highly doubt that anyone could do an entire rewiring job to make drastic changes to themselves,but I can't agree that plasticity ends at childhood.