The Enchanted Loom reviews Barbara Arrowsmith-Young's book, The Woman Who Changed Her Brain

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10 threads
from
Barbara Arrow-
smith-Young’s …

3. Thread 1:
The brain is like a muscle. Proper training
can increase its load-carrying capacity.
(pg. 14)

4. Thread 2:
A neural network is only as fast and strong
as its weakest linkages.
(pg. 32)

5. Thread 3:
Children and adults can be gifted and
learning-disabled at the same time.
(pg. 39)

6. Thread 4:
Impoverished
neural
networks
can produce
“semantic
aphasia” –
loss of word
meanings.
(pg. 46)

7. Thread 5:
Emotional dysregulation is often
associated with attention deficits.
(pg. 55)

8. Thread 6:
When words
fail us, they
compromise
adult
autonomy.
(pg. 74)

9. Thread 7:
Artifactual thinking deficits can make us
appear self-absorbed, selfish and insensitive.
(pg. 95)

10. Thread 8:
Forming a
memory
changes
network
connections
all over the
brain.
(pg. 179)

11. Thread 9:
Quantity circuitry deficits in the horizontal
intraparietal sulcus compromises our
ability to do math.
(pg. 193)

12. Thread 10:
Strengthening
one brain net-
work area often
generalizes
to other
network areas.
(pg. 184)

13. 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

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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