Wednesday 16 January 2013

What does it take to overcome Neurological Orthodoxy?


This is Miss Maize the hamster, not a rat!

The world of a neuroskeptic!

Almost every day I read the latest offerings from the blog dean’s stroke musings and each day I am surprised at the volume of relevant information for conductors that is unearthed there. Every now and then Dean scatters some of his own post-stroke experiences amongst it and occasionally there are links that he suggests readers ask their therapists and doctors about that are a little bit tongue-in-cheek!

I suspect that this is one of those tongue in cheek instances – “Drunk Rats Could Overturn Neurological Orthodoxy – Ask your neurologist how this knowledge will help your recovery.”

http://oc1dean.blogspot.de/2013/01/drunk-rats-could-overturn-neurological.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+DeansStrokeMusings+%28deans%27+stroke+musings%29

Check out the original source of the article as there is quite a lot of interesting stuff to read there too –

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.de/2013/01/drunk-rats-could-overturn-neurological.html



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2 comments:

  1. oc1dean16 January 2013 at 22:55

    Come on Susie, asking your neurologist about drunk rats was not tongue in cheek, it was to prove to the neurologist that they were not keeping up with current science. I expect my doctor to know more than me which may be why I haven't seen one in 3 years. Dean

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  2. Andrew25 February 2013 at 11:25

    I suppose that I have two fundamental objections about the 'orthodoxy' revealed here, or maybe these are simply two sides of the same coin:

    (1) increasing or lessening brain volume is no tool for those dealing with people, who have would heal the soul (psyche)
    (2) a bridging experiment as suggested here, to see what might 'translate to humans', lies within the realms of possibility ( (and I do know that this is a spoof suggestion, and I do have a sense of humour).

    By 'the same coin':I refer to mechanistic /biologism, a dominant currency now in so many sectors. Side (2) of this coin is an obvious logical extension of side (1) and, differently stated, might even be fundable as a research project!

    By the way,you might be interested in the following blog posting from Prof Trish Greehaigh:

    http://search.babylon.com/home?q=trisha+greenhalgh+less+research&babsrc=home&s=web&rlz=0&as=3&ac=0

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