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[drchristophedelongsblog]

The brain stem: A pillar of motor function

The brain stem is a vital structure of the central nervous system, located at the base of the brain and connecting it to the spinal cord. It plays an essential role in many bodily functions, including the coordination of movement.

Role of the brain stem in motor function

The brain stem contains motor nuclei, groups of neurons involved in the control of movement. These motor nuclei receive information from the brain, cerebellum and spinal cord, and transmit it to the muscles via the cranial nerves and descending spinal cord pathways.

More specifically, the brainstem is involved in:

- Control of voluntary movements ‍♀️: The motor nuclei of the brainstem, in collaboration with the motor cortex, cerebellum and basal ganglia, are involved in the planning, initiation and execution of voluntary movements.

- Control of reflex movements ️: The brainstem contains reflex centers that control automatic and involuntary movements, such as coughing, yawning, swallowing and the blink reflex.

- Maintaining balance and posture : The brainstem receives information from the balance organs (inner ear) and the body's sensory receptors, and uses it to adjust posture and maintain balance.

- Controlling eye, head and facial movements ️: The motor nuclei of the brainstem control the muscles that move the eyes, head and face.

Structure of the brain stem

The brainstem is made up of three main parts:

- The mesencephalon: This is the upper part of the brainstem, containing motor nuclei involved in controlling eye movements and visual and auditory reflexes.

- Bridge: This is the middle part of the brain stem, containing motor nuclei involved in controlling head and facial movements, as well as nerve fibers connecting the brain to the cerebellum.

- Medulla oblongata: This is the lower part of the brain stem, containing motor nuclei involved in controlling vital functions such as breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.

Brain stem injuries

Brain stem lesions can lead to a variety of motor disorders, such as :

- Hemiplegia

- Ataxia

- tremors

- Balance disorders

- Speech disorders

- Swallowing disorders

- Breathing disorders

Conclusion

The brainstem is an essential structure of the central nervous system, playing a crucial role in the coordination of movement, as well as in many other vital functions.

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[sassytherapist-blog]

Proper stimulation for babies 10 to 12 months

(photo: centro CADI)

Motricity

At this stage the child can move from crawling position to kneeling. When   kneeling stands with help from a support. By the end of the trimester the child starts walking without a support

One way to stimulate the child is through physical exercises such as, placing the child in a small chair, the adult approaches the child with open arms to get the child to try to stand by their own means.

Pulling and dropings things, is their favorite pastime. Give and take games promotes coordination, It allows them to experience that they can lose and regain what they love.

Encouraging the child to remove, stack, and reach for objects. Develops their fine motor skills and intelligence.

The child starts looking for objects that disappear, but still does not coordinate movements or successive locations. The search is given by trial and error.

Language

The fundamental feature which crosses this stage is the attention that awakens in the child when hearing his or her name and the immediate response to it. Entering the tenth month can statically understand the meaning of the word "no".

In this period some word will appear in their universe to wich they will pay attention and they will seem to understand.

by the time the child is twelve months old the  appears the possibility of carrying out motor actions from suggestions verbally made, among the first are those associated with give and take

Around 12 months language also appears as a form of "interpreting" different moods. For this not onlywill they take into account any words or syllables known to them, but also the tone and gestures.

Between 12 and 18 months can be said that a child expresses about 15 words, among them are “mom” and “dad”. At this stage the speech is related to their knowledge of the bodies and the surrounding environment.

One way to increase their language is to show the child, pictures of objects that they are familiar with, and name the objects as you do so.

(Drawings should be colorful and simple)

Feeding

It is important to involve the child in the family table. talk, sing, play with their fingers, and let them eat with their hands, it stimulates all their senses.

[vesnaonline]

Bodily space can be distinguished from external space and it can envelop its parts rather than laying them out side by side because it is the darkness of the theater required for the clarity of the performance . . .

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of Perception)

[barbaraz1]

"Consciousness is being toward the thing through the intermediary of the body. A movement is learned when the body has understood it, that is, when it has incorporated it into its "world," and to move one's body is to aim at the things through it, or to allow one's body to respond to their solicitation, which is exerted upon the body without any representation. Motricity is thus not, as it were, a servant of consciousness, transporting the body to the point of space that we imagine beforehand...

Thus we must not say that our body is in space, nor for that matter in time. It inhabits space and time. If my hand executes a complicated movement in the air, I do not have to add together all the movements in one direction and subtract the movements in the other in order to know its final position... I am not in space and in time, nor do I think space and time; rather, I am of space and time." Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Phenomenology of Perception Part I. The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motricity

[solavei-blog]

Solavei Launching Sept. 21, 2012 by Ryan Wuerch of Motricity

Have you seen the hype surrounding  Solavei?

Solavei is Founded by ex-CEO of Motricity Ryan Wuerch, he’s promising to “create a company that will positively impact millions of people”.

The official launch dateof Solavei is set for September 21st.  Hundreds of  Solavei  “founders”  are in stealth mode and inviting no more than 12 to get in early before the big show begins.

What are they selling?

Solavei’s main service is rumored to be an unlimited cell phone plan for only $49 a month with the provider being T-Mobile.

In addition, they are also attempting to build a social commerce network in to the mix.  Similar to companies like ShopAtHome.com, Solavei are promising shopping discounts and cash back rewards to their members.

Revolutionary?  Game changing?

The unlimited cell phone service sounds promising, who wouldn’t want everything for only $50 a month?

The cash back and shopping discounts are a dime a dozen and will be an easy way to keep people loyal to Solavei and their business opportunity.

Speaking of the Solavei business opportunity… how will people make money promoting the company?

Similar to any other network marketing business, by referring others to the cell phone service and social commerce platform, commissions will be paid on purchases throughout levels of their team.

The question when researching any home business is… what exactly does it take to make money?

A good question to ask is… How many people do I need to recruit to make a $1000 a month?

Since Solavei is operating on thin margins with their price cutting cell service and already cut throat discount shopping… I’d take a wild guess it will take a very large team to make an extra $1000 a month.

Will they create a huge splash in the industry when they launch?

I don’t have any doubts… with the large number of top executives from Motricity and other Fortune 500 companies signing on Solavei… it will be fun to watch.

[scienceyquotes-blog]

"So yes the brain seems to have evolved, or I believe and many people will agree, as the instrument for motricity, the instrument to move. Now because it is so closely related to prediction and so closely related to intentionality when we make an impossible statement and say you know what, thinking may be nothing else but internalized movement. Why? Because it is through movement that we solve many things. And what is it that the brain basically does ultimately in all of us? What it does is generate premotor acts, inside it generates premotor events, all that we can do as human beings with our brain is activation of motor neurons, that is the only output. I tell my students you only activate muscles or you activate glands. To put it differently, you either move or drool, that’s all you can do in life. Its true. Ok so you have this apparatus that defines movement beautifully, that predicts that has all sorts of hypotheses on which to act. So thinking is a premotor act. And therefore we are fundamentally moving animals that move intelligently. The more intelligent our movement, the more intelligent we are as animals"

Rodolfo Llinás ~ Neuroscientist