On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:01:27 -0800, Airbus wrote:

In article ,
says...


There is quite a lot of evidence that repeated mental processes do in
fact modify the physical brain. Bagley's book "Train Your Mind, Change
Your Brain", is worth glacing thru if you find the professional
literature boring.

Also learning grows new connections
The mind like muscles benefits from exercise. Mental exercise that is.

If you lose a function such as walking, it is possible for the brain
to make new connections.


If a person's mental activity is largely devoted to playing a
simulator game and posting on the net, one can be sure other underused
parts of the brain begin getting used to support those activiites. If
you pilot an airplane often, the process becomes 'easier' because
there's actually more brain devoted to it. Some other underused
activity will be less supported.

Researchers are always on the lookout for subjects who spend much of
their time in unusual ways, so that their brain functions can be
mapped with some of the newer imaging methodologies.

Anthony, I have this infromed consent document here I'd like you to
read. After you sign it we're going to stick your head in this fNMR
brain bloodflow imaging device. . . . .

Just the thing for any one who is remotely claustrophobic.:-))
It helps you work on your concentration.

Hey guys, don't laugh. It may sound funny, but we do that kind of
stuff every day. And there are many many safeguards to protect all of
our subjects, so don't start thinking after the process someone like
Anthony after being subjected to intense magnetic fields will only
walk north or something.

I never knew magnetic fields could be so loud.
For the un-initiated, they stick you into this big machine with just
your feet sticking out and the base is about a 1/4 inch from the end
of your nose. And...that is in what they call the "open" machine.

After my left leg and hand quit working they stuck me in one of these.
Then after all that they told me it was "all in my head".

Roger



Sounds good - he's walking plenty south these days, with large compass
turning errors . . .