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In Beta newsletter: On left and right brain thinking

May 10, 2021

in Learning

brain, creativity, hemisphere, in beta, left brain, neurology, neuroscience, newsletter, reason, right brain

In the May edition of the In Beta newsletter I shared some resources linked to Iain McGilchrist’s ideas on the way that we’ve come to think about the relative roles of the right and left brain hemispheres, their relationship to each other, and the possible impact that this has had on Western civilization. For me,…
Neuroplasticity in rehabilitation

Sep 5, 2011

in Health, Physiotherapy

constraint induced therapy, cortical reorganisation, neurology, neuroplasticity, neurorehabilitation, plasticity

A few weeks ago I attended a short presentation by Professor Meena Iyer from Missouri University. Her lecture was on the role of neuroplasticity in occupational therapy rehabilitation, although the principles of her talk apply across all of the allied health sciences. Here are the notes I took: Plasticity: brain structure and function can be…