The Enchanted Loom: A Graphic Review of Neuroscience Masterworks

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10
threads from
Gabor
Maté ’s …
é

3. Thread 1:
No society can
understand
itself without
looking at its
shadow side.
(pg. 2)

4. Thread 2:
Adults envy the openhearted, open-
minded explorations of children;
we pine for
our own lost
capacity for
wide-eyed
wonder.
(pg. 39)

5. Thread 3:
Emotional isolation, powerlessness and
stress are the conditions that promote
addiction.
(pg. 145)

6. Thread 4:
Addiction to opiates arises in a brain
system that governs the most powerful
emotional
dynamic
in human
existence:
the
attachment
instinct.
Love.
(pg. 162)

7. Thread 5:
One of the most
important duties
of the cortex
is to inhibit
inappropriate
responses.
(pg. 176)

8. Thread 6:
Emotional
nurturance is
an absolute
requirement
for healthy
brain
development.
(pg. 193)

9. Thread 7:
An impoverished
childhood
environment
can decrease
1000-fold
the number of
connections
per brain cell.
(pg. 195)

10. Thread 8:
Fathers are
often the best
protection
from stress
for the family,
or the
greatest
source of it.
(pg. 216)

11. Thread 9:
No one is born with the capacity for
emotional self-regulation. It only
develops when the conditions are right.
(pg. 236)

12. Thread 10:
Whatever unfinished emotional business
we don’t deal with in our own lives, we
pass on to our
children.
Children
swim
in their
parents’
unconscious.
(pg. 116)

13. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://veilofreality.com/tag/carl-jung/
Slide 12 - http://theredbamboo.deviantart.com/art/Underwater-10-38602999
Slide 2 - https://twitter.com/satdharamkaur
Slide 6 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Love-50316085
Slide 5 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/isolated-29942351
Slide 11 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Meditation-335576560
Slide 10 - http://dailym.ai/1KNYWoJ
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://bit.ly/1cEPp7K
Slide 8 - http://meimicat.deviantart.com/art/Nurture-314707850
Slide 7 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Inner-Self-36887004
Slide 4 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Child-Dream-s-191915453

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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