Jotting down my ideas before I forget.
Chris really supports my brainstorming, but he also doesn't really care to hear about it. It's okay - there are many things that he's interested in that I don't care much for, either. :)
Disregard this post if you're not into theoretical science. I had a dream last night and figured out theoretical cure for neurological diseases. I woke up this morning and researched the main parts of my dream and so far, the theory behind it seems sound.
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First of all, the issue that I focused on was the effects of basal ganglia damage, i.e. head trauma, drug abuse, neurological (genetic or mutated) defects, death.
Basal Ganglia, is a section of your brain that's basically neighbours with your Cerebral Cortex & Thalamus. This big shot Mr. B Ganglia, is responsible for much of the chaos and order in our lives. He controls our habits and our habitual emotional responses. He's also the cause of our motivation or lack thereof.
Our Cerebral Cortex aka Carrie, is responsible for our memory, presence (in the now), awareness of surroundings, overall observance, among a ton of other important qualities.
the Thalalmus aka Miranda, lives down the street. She's a good friend of Carrie and speaks with her on a regular basis.
Anyway, Mr. Big, lives kiddy corner to Carrie & Miranda. He constantly flirts with Carrie and causes drama. Miranda tries to regulate him, but in the end of the day, his inherent habits and fears, cloud his emotional regulation and he ends up repeatedly flirting with Carrie. Most of the time this ends up in disaster, but with the right amount of regulation, Mr. Big & Carrie's relationship can be successful.
In science in our day and age, studying the relationship between Mr. Big and Miranda hasn't been as much of a priority. Scientists really don't know how much the Thalamus affects the Basal Ganglia.
Brainiacs are developing ideas of synthetic stem cell studies that 'rebuild' damaged areas of the brain from scratch. They're trying to reverse degeneration.
It sounds like a great step (whenever that step ever happens), although how realistic is this? If people repair sections of their brain that are deficient or essentially now new tissue, it's not like they're automatically going to be the same person they were prior to the brain trauma. Yes they're alive, but they're still not the same person.
My dream reflected upon taking more control of the 'manager' section of the brain, aka the Thalamus.
In engineering, most engineers (if time permits) will recode things from the root (or very close to) to create a more efficient (clean) program.
The whole philosophy of creating a more organized process of thinking should apply to the human brain as well. We can't recode the human brain, but we can stimulate the different sections of brain with synthetic chemicals to provide chemical balance. We do this all the time - with antidepressants, antipsychotics, and other ssris, etc.
Why not target specifically the Thalamus? Provide the thalamus with the appropriate chemicals to balance the brain as a whole? If the Thalamus is balanced, wouldn't it create a domino effect on the rest of the brain?
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I wish I had a neurology professor I could ask!! :)
xo
-M
