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It is also maintains arbitrary sensorimotor information order ashwafera 30 caps line, possible that a physiologic variable more closely followed by long-term storage of an internal associated with greater skill was coded by a model for the skill. Bizzi and practiced for a month to make fine sensory dis- colleagues recorded from M1 neurons in mon- criminations between two narrow bars gripped keys as they performed the same reaching against the skin of three fingers for approxi- movements with a manipulandum in a force mately 50 ms. Both muscle and move- digits simultaneously, but the bars pressed at ment representations were found in M1. Evoked neuronal investigators showed that both motor per- spikes from BA 3b revealed a dramatic change formance during the task and motor learning in the organization of the sensory fields for the involved the same neuronal population. Instead of the usual separate zones for parently, single neurons change their activity individual fingers, multiple-digit receptive as a new internal model for motor learning fields evolved. In parallel, the entire neuronal popu- partially replaced the normally segregated rep- lation reorganizes in relation to the direction resentation for the skin of adjacent digits. The of movements and to activation of muscles to change occurred only in the cortex, not in the transmit signals appropriate for the behavioral ventroposterior nucleus of the thalamus. Thus, plasticity experiment demonstrates that Hebbian synap- Plasticity in Sensorimotor and Cognitive Networks 43 EXPERIMENTAL CASE STUDIES 1–4: Sensory Map Plasticity Using a mapping technique with an array of microelectrodes over the cortical surface of monkeys, Merzenich and colleagues conducted a series of experiments that demonstrate the mutability of so- matosensory representations. In another experiment, monkeys were rewarded for touching a rotating disk that had an uneven sur- face with the tip of a digit for approximately 1. The cortical represen- tation of the stimulated phalanx enlarged immediately after stimulation and returned to the prestimu- lation size within 30 days. A cortical lesion in area 3b was made where stimulation of one of the fingers had produced neuronal activation. The in- vestigators induced the primate to use the same skin area of the hand in a reinforcing behavioral task by having it manipulate food pellets to eat. In addition, changes in synaptic effectiveness within the local intracortical somatosensory neural network seemed to account for some of the variations in representations they observed. Hori- zontal connections that link cortical neurons over 6 to 8 mm have been found in the visual system. Ax- ons of primary sensorimotor cortex pyramidal cells have as many as five intracortical collateral axons that form synapses over distances of 6 mm.

About this time in my search for new ways to deal with difficult patients like Regina generic 30caps ashwafera with amex, I had read a book called Change (Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch 1974) Te authors described a patient very much like Regina who they posited liked to defeat experts. Tey mentioned a class of people who, for whatever reason, play a game of defeating experts. Tere is only one way that an expert (a clini- cian, in this case) can be defeated and help the patient at the same time, the authors suggest: a therapeutic paradox. According to the method described in Change, the patient (in this case, Regina) is saying unconsciously: No matter what you do, I will stay sick. You have heard all my old experiences with doc- tors, and in each one I did not get well. In fact, no matter what the A Paradoxical Approach 145 doctor did, I got worse. Te therapeutic paradox the authors suggested is what I tried with Regina. I discussed the case with the orthopedist and he agreed with the approach I outlined. He had nothing to offer the patient and could think of no other tests or operations that would help. She had been in physical therapy for months with no help; in fact, she thought she had strained her back even further with some of the treatments. I asked the head nurse on the unit to be there and witness what I told Regina. I was very anxious because I had never been as frank as I intended to be with Regina, and I could not predict what reaction she might have.

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