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5 or6 grinding days, a bit depressed, making no progress, and then I was able to increase the weight for a few strokes and feel like it will be this week when I do 100 of em. Really I m fat and should be doing aerobic stuff but I don't have energy for that. Just a few lifts every hour for the last 4...

have demonstrated that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets and re-form connections after spinal cord injury.

that would be big news to tRick Hansen

hmm there's no grey matter outside the brain. But there are parts of the brain that drive the spinal cord. If those are damaged that's a good place for reorganization to work

well that' seems to be what he's getting at. That the cns recruits new grey matter to solve problems.even outside the brain. I don't know how far that goes. anecdotes are super important.

so are there anecdotes of people teaching themselves to see better? I was blocked by thinking of the visual cortex as finite but he site's examples of the brain recruiting in other areas. Vision powered outside the visual cortex is intriguing. I wonder if there are ways to encourage such sight?Maybe...

so we have 1eye and his ability to walk and I would like to put my vision forward as a case. It ays in the movie that you reorganize what you really really need, and well I've been working as a photographer lately
and I really need to be able to see. I bet 1 eye really needs to walk too.

go cheer!

You know what would be really easy? An app that plays an obnoxious note when the accelerometer detects imbalance. I could see making a noise so obnoxious that it trains you not to lose balance or you'll hear it. Hmm, that would only take a few hours I think. The pee story is proof that machines can ...

Just curious, can you walk in your dreams? I'll withhold my flakey theories on what that might mean,dunno. So you have to break the problem into tons of tiny steps you can put on a list and check off. Then celebrate wildly the completion of baby steps. For me, I started just lifting 80 pounds with m...

http://www.vrh2.com/pics/putnam.pdf

a librarian friend of mine scanned it. Don't tell anyone.

so the tech behind the balance system might not be too hard to get.The residual effects are just magic. Gotta try it. There is an accelerometer built into every iPhone, so theoretically balance data could be sent out to your tongue like in the video or maybe to a patch of skin.. Im thinking the litt...

But it might take 6 - 15 years for the data to come in?

I think putnam's dog's showed lesions after 10 months. I scanned the old paper from 1927 and I have it on my server if you can't find it anywhere else.

http://www.positscience.com/

I just watched the video and it's great. At the end they talk about posit science? Anybody tried it.

Jeff's fav book it The Brain the Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
Here he is in an interview--





Oh ya that's what I meant

hey 1eye I have an idea on the weak hands that strengthening the whole arm might help. Isolating muscle groups that are weak and working those seems to help weakness. Numbness is more of a challenge.