#cognitive changes

🧠 The Resilient Mind Series Understanding Brain Injury — Post 2 In the first article of this series, we explored what a brain injury is and why many of these injuries are often invisible. One of the most important things to understand next is how injuries to the brain can affect behavior. The brain controls nearly everything we do. It regulates our thoughts, emotions, reactions, memory,…

I am now stating things verbally and visually that aren't necessarily from me. I've always been able to think visually, usually only if it's happened to me before. My fantasy world is kind of less than worth noting. I was actually fairly decent when I first began attempting to build a visual fantasy life in 1999/2000. I put a lot of thought into it and it was my favorite thing to do to escape, imagine this whole other life I lived. A life with a family who loved me and a group of friends who actually wanted me around. I couldn't wait to get home from school to enter my secret existence. Apparently it wasn't so private after all.

Anyways. I'll think I'm nodding off and entering a dream like state when I hear myself speaking in my head. And its weird ass commentary. None of it really makes sense. It's not supposed to its just to bring my confidence back down to negative 200 and ensure I don't have anything worth listening to in my real conversations or thoughts. I still don't get why the mass hatred. A couple people or even one job like I could understand that. But an entire city, to an entire state and now multiple states and possible multiple countries? What the fuck.

Understanding Kleine-Levin Syndrome: The 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome' @neosciencehub #KleineLevinSyndrome #SleepingBeautySyndrome #neosciencehub #Sciencenews

Imagine waking up after days or even weeks, only to find that you’ve been in a deep, unshakable slumber. For individuals with Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS), also known as ‘Sleeping Beauty Syndrome,’ this is a haunting reality. This rare neurological disorder causes recurring episodes of excessive sleep, often accompanied by unusual behavior, cognitive changes, and altered behaviour.  What is…

Yea!!

The few days before Thanksgiving are always filled with expectation, and today was no different. Elaine makes me smile when I think about the ways that she is engaged  with life, even if her cognitive functioning is dis-eased.

Today seemed different with Elaine though. She is not going in and out of the kitchen like the times before, attending to the dogs or wandering into other rooms. She stayed with me for a bit more today, and we even spent some time outside in the beautiful sunshine. It is almost like she is remembering how to cook when we are together. She showed me with her fingers how to make the crust pretty, “You know when you pinch it,” she says to me, but then when she went to do it, she ended up saying, “It looks good like that, just leave it.” And I agreed with her, but noticed that her fingers knew what to do, but her mind got in the way when she bent over to try. She even told me to get the last little bit of batter that was in the metal bowl, which only good cooks who are mindful of waste look out for–so I knew that she was remembering something of the past through this activity.

We both tagged teamed the Chess pie, and there were a few bloopers, like the pie burning, and then me slowly peeling off the burnt part–whew, what a save. Because now, you could not tell from looking at it that it had burned so much on top. I definitely want to do this pie again, but here is the recipe, along with the changes I would make.

Chess Pie

1 Tablespoon flour

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

2 eggs

4 tablespoon or 1/4 cup of melted butter

2 Tablespoons of milk

Directions: cream eggs and sugar together. Add butter, milk, and vanilla extract. Mix in flour. Pour into pie crust. Bake on 475 degrees for 10 minutes, then turn the oven down to 350 degrees and cook until the pie sets.

Note: It will be difficult to know when the pie sets because sugar when hot will be liquid. So I got nothing for you on this because I couldn’t tell when the pie was done. Just when I I thought it had been in there for too long.

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FTD – Bringing New Horizons

Since becoming a lady of leisure recently (hah!) I have been tackling some projects around my house. Just small things that I didn’t have time to finish (or the inclination when working 50 hours a week) following the big renovation last year. One of the things I noticed while painting, sanding and stenciling, was that if I made a small mistake, or got paint somewhere it shouldn’t be (mostly on…

An estimated 2.3 million individuals are living with multiple sclerosis (MS) worldwide. Approximately half of all individuals with MS experience changes in cognition such as impaired concentration, attention, memory, and judgment. The underlying brain basis for these deleterious effects has been largely elusive. New findings published yesterday in Neuropsychology reveal that decreased…