msb-0166 "Who'd a thunk it!?!"

msb-0166 "Who'd a thunk it!"

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----"Mech's Eye View" by: "LogicOne" http://myspace.com/logicthe1st

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Homer episode msb-gr-0002 went up last Wednesday.

Herrad is almost there with her episode msb-du-0005.

We're working out the kinks.

Apart from that, there's isn't any feedback. [sigh]

We'll see if that situation remains the same after my ad for MSBPodcast.com appears in "MS Insider" :-)

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Speaking of InsideMS, I just received the June/July Issue. I was full of the stuff I've come to depend on from the NMSS (the "National Multiple Sclerosis Society".)

I should not be contributing to this segment so ... I'll shut up now.

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Main Topic: "Who'd a thunk it!?!"

Yesterday, (Saturday June 16th 2007 as I write this, [who knows when you're hearing it]) there was an episode of "CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks" podcast [select and copy " http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml " and then paste it into your podcatcher,] that started off with an utterly fascinating segment about brain function.

Turns out there is a part of our brain that recognizes shapes and it doesn't mater how the brain acquires the shape, by sight (which is the normal path,) or by touch, or even by sound. (It would make sense, pardon the pun, that this is how "echo location" would work in bats and dolphins. [I can just that imagine some foods or smells might elicit sensations of shapes.])

This was proven by "Allison Motlook ", a researcher who participated in a "blind fold study" test where she was blind folded for five days, (figures or they wouldn't have called it a "blind-fold study", right? :-).

She experienced what might be called, for want of a better word, hallucinations; ("neuro-plasticity is the word,") seeing shapes and colors while being totally sight deprived by a light-tight blind-fold over her eyes.

(Go and download the show. [The instructions are on my site.] Its really fascinating.)

The upshot of the whole thing is that our brains experience far more than we give it credit for. No area is ever really dead just because we happen to deprive it of the primary source of stimulation. The visual cortex is alive and kickin' even when you're blind.

---- "Remember Back " by: "ProjektZero" http://www.myspace.com/ProjektZero

Main Topic, part deux:

This test leads me to wonder what would happen to a brain with a lesion, (or two, [I have no idea who large this region of the brain actually is, {or even where it is located,}]) affected by "sclera".

Might some people lose the ability to recognize the shape of things?

I seem to have a weakened sense of "soma", or body image, when trying to extend it to my car.

I used to "wear" my cars like a second skin and driving them was a joy. I was one with the car, driving 'round corners, backing up as effortlessly as driving forward, starting and stopping with "precision".

These days, I'm actually uncomfortable driving around. Trying to squeeze between cars is laborious and worrisome. Trying to parallel park is an adventure, a exercise in moving, but not like "U-Haul" meant in those ads of yore.

Having MS really sucks for mobility. Not only do I walk in 'slow motion" but I drive like it too.

And driving I should really be able to do at my old pace because it requires no strength on my part and I'm hyper-reflexive so my reaction response is much faster than a normal person's.

But now I'm now scared of-slash-by my spasticity.

---- "Give em More" by: "LogicOne" http://myspace.com/logicthe1st

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