The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from

neuroscience masterworks

Teasing 10 threads fromBarbara Arrow- smith-Young’s …

Thread 1:

The brain is like a muscle. Proper training can increase its load-carrying capacity.

(pg. 14)

Thread 2:

A neural network is only as fast and strong as its weakest linkages.

(pg. 32)

Thread 3:

Children and adults can be gifted and learning-disabled at the same time.

(pg. 39)

Thread 4:

Impoverished neural networks can produce “semantic aphasia” – loss of word meanings.

(pg. 46)

Thread 5:

Emotional dysregulation is often associated with attention deficits.

(pg. 55)

Thread 6:

When words fail us, they compromise adult autonomy.

(pg. 74)

Thread 7:

Artifactual thinking deficits can make us appear self-absorbed, selfish and insensitive.

(pg. 95)

Thread 8:

Forming a memory changes network connections all over the brain.

(pg. 179)

Thread 9:

Quantity circuitry deficits in the horizontal intraparietal sulcus compromises our ability to do math.

(pg. 193)

Thread 10:

Strengthening one brain net- work area often generalizes to other network areas.

(pg. 184)

Image Credits:

Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 3 - http://edwingriffiths.org/?p=188

Slide 12 - http://wolfepaw.deviantart.com/art/Your-Brain-on-Fractals-130072476

Slide 2 - http://bit.ly/1IfrSad

Slide 6 - http://bit.ly/1bARpOb

Slide 5 - http://giftedkids.about.com/od/giftedandld/

Slide 11 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraparietal_sulcus

Slide 10 - http://bit.ly/1OFNth4

Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 9 - http://galleryhip.com/narcissistic-parents.html

Slide 8 - http://pixshark.com/speechless-face.htm

Slide 7 - http://amane-yamashita.deviantart.com/art/Fragmented-Face-337828944

Slide 4 - http://linkd.in/1bfE79j

Mark Brady, PhDTheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com

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