Marc Dominguez’s Reviews > The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force > Status Update

Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) enabled stroke patients to regain function in their affected limbs in as little as two weeks, yielding a remarkable 97% improvement in functional recovery.

Vocab words, look these up:
- somatosensory system
- Cortical representation
- erogenous
- The Brain Map (Cortical Homunculus)

The brain can use areas of the brain and different synapses to re-wire them for different tasks. Even when a portion of the brain is removed, the tasks that portion of the brain is responsible for can be transferred to different areas to share the load. Wow!

It’s so common these days to recognize that your OCD is not your “ true self”. But rather something else that hasn’t effect on you. Even with other disorders/disabilities. It’s very common to consider yourself separate from “ whatever is wrong with you”

The orbital frontal cortex is responsible for generating the feeling of “ something is wrong here”

They compared a normal functioning rate to an automatic transmission and an OCD brain to a sticky manual transmission - at times having difficulty shifting gears. The orbital frontal cortex is either hyperactive or prevented from being adequately active.