I read The Mind and The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force by Jeffrey M Schwartz and Sharon Begley on the recommendation of MortimerMouse on the Diagnosed boards. He’s got sz but he is progressing through his studies (last I read he was one step away from a PhD in psychology). It is largely concerned with research on OCD (which resembles/is the same as intrusive thoughts in sz) and what the individual can do, how one can actually retrain one’s own brain and effectively ‘close down’ the malfunctioning circuits and build or reinforce better ones. My son and I had some very beneficial discussions out of it. We try to approach it as building good ‘habits’ step by step. So, for example, my son is reading more as a result. That’s supposed to be very beneficial for everybody’s brain. It has to be said, though, that a lot of this kind of work is much more easily achieved while on APs. In fact my son recently voluntarily reverted to depot injections from tablets because he forgets the tablets and his concentration is much better when he’s on APs at a steady dose.
How the Brain Can Recover: Rewiring the brain: A conversation with three pioneers of neuroplasticity
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