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[pandaspansawareness]

A Poem To Those Who Don’t Accept My Tics

People say it’s a disorder

Like something in me’s out of order,

They want to banish it out of me,

But why can’t they just try to see? 

They see it like the spawn of satan, 

Is the one making me twitch, 

But what we really need to straighten,

Is the fact that it’s not just a glitch. 

This ‘glitch’ you speak of helps me,

Why can’t I just tic free?

Why can’t we just accept this unique form of diversity? 

They want me to be ‘fixed’,

As if loving me and having tics can’t be mixed,

They want me to be ‘normal’,

As if I constantly have to be formal,

But can you imagine,

How boring that would be?

You may not know the strength it took,

To accept myself as I am, 

But you look at me like I'm some sort of crook, 

Who just couldn’t give a damn. 

I refuse to make you comfortable,

In your ableism,

I’m ungovernable.

You must love me as I am, 

If you truly love me like you say. 

Do you love me as I am,

Or just as you want me to be? 

I want to be free, 

Not from my ‘disorder’, 

But free to be me,

You were out of order.

Why won’t you just accept me as I am?

Why do I have to change for you? 

Why can I not just be loved with my condition? 

I refuse to be ‘cured’

Just to be seen as ‘acceptable’. 

You likely don’t know what I've endured,

The judgement is what’s unacceptable. 

The problem wasn’t me. 

By Romy. W

[jonathanclarkphysiotherapy]

Exploring Degenerative Diseases

Huntington’s Disease

Huntington’s Disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disease which causes damage to brain cells in the basal ganglia and cortex. It commonly occurs in people aged 35-55 years and results in movement, cognition and behaviour abnormalities.

Juvenile Huntington's Disease accounts for approximately 6% of all cases, affecting those aged 20 years or younger.  

Huntington’s Disease is characterised by ‘Chorea’; abnormal involuntary movement disorder. This can also affect speech, swallowing, posture and gait and often progresses to rigidity and

dementia in the later stages.

Symptoms include:

Chorea (loss of range and function)

Rigidity (loss of range, immobility, contractures, deformity and pain)

Spasm (exaggerated movements, pain)

Speech abnormality (communication problems)

Swallowing problems (chest infection, aspiration / choking)

Physiotherapy is important for patients with Huntington’s Disease in order to help maintain patient independence for as long as possible. Physiotherapists can provide specific exercises to help maintain balance and mobility as well as postural awareness achieved through exercises performed in standing, sitting and lying. Treatment also includes relaxation techniques, moving / handling and positioning for comfort.

[pavel-nosok]

How Addictive Tech Hacks Your Brain

Here’s a situation most of us can relate to: We find ourselves facing a dull moment—maybe standing in a checkout line, sitting in a waiting room, or even stuck at a red light—and our hands suddenly feel empty. Like they have a mind of their own, they reach for our pockets, and place a screen in front of our faces.… Read more…

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[drsunshine08]

The basal ganglia and its role in learning

The basal ganglia is a structure found deep within the cerebral hemisphere of the brain. This structure generally includes the caudate putamen, the globus pallidus in the cerebrum, the substantia nigra in the midbrain, and the subthalamic nucleus in the diencephalon. The basal ganglia has extensive roles in cognitive, emotional, and movement related functions but research has shown that the basal ganglia has a role in habitual learning and association. 

The relationship between the two is shown in win-stay experiments with rats. Rats with caudal lesions in the basal ganglia had difficulty responding to visual light cues and with remembering where they had been in the maze. The rats with caudal lesions also failed at associating a relationship between stimulus and response, where the rats without a lesion did a much better job of this. This indicates that the basal ganglia is involved with association which results in habitual learning. 

Furthermore, the relationship of the basal ganglia and habit or stimulus/response learning in humans is also shown in a weather forecasting prediction game. In this game, you learn how to predict rain or sunshine using a deck of four cards. Each card “predicts” a certain forecast, and you are supposed to guess what forecast is going to happen based on the card drawn. While this may seem very simple and really, you are just learning associations and learning which weather is associated with which card, patients of Parkinson’s disease (damage to basal ganglia) have a lower percentage of correct answers then those without damage. In comparison to a control group and a group with amnesia, those with Parkinson’s disease scored twenty-five percent lower on average over a span of fifty trails. This disparity clearly shows that the basal ganglia has a relationship with human’s ability of habitual learning and association.

[itsmedips]

"Hook Model" - How to "Hook" a customer to a product?

“Hook Model” – How to “Hook” a customer to a product?

“Hooked” by Nir Eyal makes a mention of the Hook Model and ways to ingrain a product in the mind’s of a customer.

To hook a customer to a product , the product should get ingrained with the habit of the customer.The following are important takeaways:

Hook Model – Start with and move subsequently a) Trigger b) Action c) variable Rewards d) Investment

Habit Zone – A product should start as a…

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Free handout defining how changes in the brain related to Parkinson's affect speech and how speech-language pathologists can help improve communication.

[ibzxo]

I’m staying in the moment, going with the moment-um. All that is worth putting energy into is the now, the here. Even now, writing this, I’m wasting “time”. Time does not exist. We manifest it, we give it form. When I think of what happened in past or what could happen in a future. I am giving life to this monster that devours our consciousness: time. Now is the time to figure out who I am. Who I already am. I am my most infinite potential right now. Who am I right now? What am I doing, experiencing, feeling, sensing? Think the goal, speak the goal, be the goal. Ask and receive, give and take, up and down. Relativity. One does not exist without the other. But who says one exists. Do they exist at all? Do we exist? Is it all a figment of my very vivid imagination. All we can go off is right now. Yesterday doesn't live without tomorrow. But neither cease to be a figment of our imagination. Our attention unaware that there is a beautiful present in front of us that has no opposite. It is all that exist. It does not need a relative object to validate its existence. It just is. Right now. And it's beautiful. It's beauty so often concealed. Cluttered by thoughts of what we miss or what we need. In reality we do not miss anything at all if we focus on this minute. In reality we do not need anything at all if we focus on this minute. In this moment we are perfectly fine stationed where we need to be. For that you should be grateful. Being thankful brings abundance to your life. The more grateful you are for the things you already have the more you will attract it. You are your biggest source of energy. For that you should be appreciative each and every day. #alanwatts #creator #realization #basalganglia #poem #poetry #poetrygram #now #present #life #play #illusion #faith #god #iam #i #gnostics