Channel 4 next Tuesday at 10 - Can You Rebuild My ... - Headway
Channel 4 next Tuesday at 10 - Can You Rebuild My Brain
Thanks Blue ; it's now on my calendar............... Cat x
Unclear what this is going to cover but I'll certainly be watching it.
One of the most interesting areas of research is the effect of microdosing with Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) & psilocybin and it's positive effect on neuroplaticity.
To quote Vaios Paragioutsikos, Specialist Neurosurgeon:
"Synapses in the brain are generated and dissolved, while others are preserved, in an ever-changing process of so-called neuroplasticity.
Scientists believe that LSD influences the level of consciousness thus the neuroplasticity."
!!Of course don't do this at home children!!
Can tell u from experience it doesn't help at all!
Sorry I missed it and it’s not on catch up yet, I think they are showing it again at the weekend.
J
Janet, its NEXT Tuesday @ 10, so you haven't missed it. x
Im currently rebuilding my brain in the basement. The neigbours have complained of course about the power outages and the sulphur fumes drifting across the lawn. But I think it will be worth it when its finished and ready to try out.
Okay Charlie Frankenstein, that's an excellent answer!
Lol
It's also being shown 1 February at 2.25 am channel 4
Interview regarding content here:
Charlieab, I see 2 problems with your approach:
The size of the lighting conductor on your home will cause complaints from your neighbors.
Everything's on hold awaiting the next big thunder storm.
Interesting interview with Lotje Sodderland - My Beautiful Broken Brain:
Having watched the interview, it seems her experience happened on a different planet, where you get help, rather than discharged and then seen 12 months later!
It was an 'okay' interview, but I I found it difficult to believe she doesn't suffer more symptoms/deficits than simply word blindness and rt peripheral vision loss! Surely that wasn't the extent of it? Did I miss something? No doubt she has worked hard at recovery and has done well.
Swedishblue ("What's that about?"), I've met people and regardless of the length of their coma or what significant cognitive symptom they have it may be only one.
I had no physical symptoms at all but a significant number of cognitive and if I understood the interview(?), rewiring (plasticity) is dependent on where the damage occurred.
But then again I've got a brain injury!!!
Ditto! Some of us fair worse than others. Its totally random and luck of the draw. A Neuropsychologist told me that two people can have the exact same area of damage/lesions (pinpointed on an mri) and suffer different outcomes. How come? Maybe we all heal and rewire differently?
Have you watched Lotje Sodderland's film, 'My Beautiful Broken Brain?'
I'd never even heard of it before this thread, however I'm downloading it from Netflix as I type.
Probably watch it over the weekend, as I'm currently hooked on Netflix's Wormwood.
Well I watched My Beautiful Broken Brain and found it both frustrating, confused and surprising.
Having said that I'm obviously biased, as Psychology was my favorite A level and I got up to speed when my daughter took it 4 years ago so I was frustrated by simplistic explanations behind the symptoms and treatments.
The the whole thing is presented in a way that tries to convey Lotje's world, so you've got distorted voices with psychedelic images, this makes it very difficult to follow the thread of the story. Then you get Lotje playing to the camera, what are the symptoms at a particular point or is she playing the part of someone in total confusion to try to give some insight to others, I couldn't tell.
Surprising as she appears to be out very quickly and by weeks 5 and 6 she's performing much better than I was (my friends and relatives tell me), however I didn't have her dysphasia and visual distortions by week 6.
For someone with her symptoms it could be helpful to watch this but again I always feel if you can get some understanding of the what's actually going on it does help. I guess Lotje knows but the producers decided the general public wouldn't be interested.
The film says patients with a large bleeds are referred to rehab units, WHAT??, I've met hundreds of TBIs with purely cognitive symptoms and I can't remember one who had such support.
I saw the Channel 4 programme, and it was interesting but skated between subjects too much for me to get anything from it. Maybe "My Beautiful" will be more useful.
I am seriously considering making my own film, even just a short one. Me-too projects are not my thing, but it sounds like hers are so different that mine would be okay 
. 13 years of misdiagnosis and psychobabble, then finally discovering stimulants - but not being able to access them because of the law and the crap on my medical records! I don't think anyone's made a film of that stuff yet
Yet to watch the Channel 4 programme but your film sounds interesting although many diagnosed TBIs would have a story of woe and lack of help.
Perhaps we should write the script!!
Based on my book? I'm tempted 
I think we've already got a problem as I'm unable to give up any editorial control!!
I blog, for various reasons mainly to just express myself, she was in the film industry which clearly helped her.
I think Headway have been asking for folks stories, if that’s your thing?
I’m unconvinced that the various folks attempting to raise awareness for brain injuries will be successful, in that narrow goal the internet tends not to work like that, ie you get shown stuff you know, and so on.
Yeah, I can't see how someone without money or influence could get their work widely known. Occasionally things go viral but it's too random to rely on. I wrote my book as a screw-you message to those who misdiagnosed me, not with an eye to sales or anything. Any film version would probably focus on the perceptual and philosophical elements, rather than my big fat anti-psychology rant. There's no point in doing the same thing twice.
If I did a film, it would purely be for the hell of it . And to play with After Effects.
If u want interviews for book about inactivity of NHS & how they'll stoop at nothing to not refer,i'm there! LOL
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