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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR BLOG !!!!! HAPPY



a couple of days ago, but a year ago, I decided, after many turns and detours, to open a space to tell the story of my son Valentine ... to tell our story ...
As the title of the blog: our life story of daily struggle, but especially our love story ... And so is love pure and beautiful ... love that emerges from the eyes of my prince, his kisses, his hugs and all the wonderful things that have spoiled me and gives me tons every day of your life.

By then I felt very alone, although I have my family and my friends, I felt that I needed more ..
had saved so much feeling in me ... so much anguish mixed with hope that was tied in my throat, I felt I had to express it somewhere ... a place where I could write (which I always loved to do) all these feelings and to get them out of me.
I also wanted to share my experience with other parents ... because in his time had served me so much access other blogs and read through many stories that were very similar to mine ... I thought if I helped, surely this area will help others who are beginning to cross the road after diagnosis, the way so hard to start to walk, and also can help a little to myself to find some peace.

... And finally came the first entry: "Welcome" ... and with it the name of the blog: "My Brave Valentine."
It did not take even two seconds to think of a name for our blog, because this way I called Valen when I was in my belly ... not knowing what life and God had prepared long after ... I think this name defines my son as it is: a brave ... a small fighter, who taught me so much being so small, hence, without knowing the name for our space already defined.
I never thought I would get both with this blog ... but to get into this wonderful blogosphere I found so much love, so much contention, as many words of support and encouragement that every time I get a comment me very excited.
found across wonderful people ... first mothers, fathers, first, that as I only live for one reason: to see their children happy.
I also came across beautiful human beings are not special parents, but they share side by side with me and many others, every little achievement, every sorrow and every fall and they do nothing to brighten up my day or pamper my soul with each I left word.

Many moms I know personally ... and we are blessed to be able to get together, when time and our allow children to drink mate, chat, to restrain each other, to know that we have with each other, knowing that we understand like no one else can understand us ... I relajadísima whose houses because I know I will not have to worry about any strange look to my son, and asking why he behaves this way? ... we are in it and know what a tantrum, a cry, a gurgle, a self-stimulation, um stereotyped game. I have no chair to give any kind to anyone about the disability of Valencia, because we are all professionals in the field.
Many others still could not meet in person ... but do not lose hope and even less hope that at some now we can cross over and give them each a big hug. With them I joined a beautiful friendship in the distance, strange, because I feel very close to me, as if we lived a just around the other ... it's crazy not it, but it's wonderful.

to all of you: THANKS FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP ! . Thanks for coming into my life and allowing me to enter in yours through their stories, which are the same as mine. Provide a shoulder for allowing me to mourn when the days turn gray, although the fatigue of the daily struggle seems to beat us and to also share a laugh, a smile and joy it brings us immense achievement and small steps are giving our children, that son justamente los que nos llena el alma de esperanza y fuerza para seguir caminando con ellos y para ellos.
INFINITAS GRACIAS!!!




Pd: tengo el blog un poco abandonado...desde el dia del padre que no escribo nada, y paso muy poco por los blogs amigos...ya pronto les estaré contando muchas cosas de Valen y pasaré a visitarlos... Valentín estuvo bastante enfermucho este tiempo y no tuve el tiempo necesario para sentarme a escribir. Con muchas mamás sigo en contacto a través del facebook, porque es una forma más rapida de mantenernos al tanto...pero prometo pasar a visitarlos y seguir llenando mis entradas con NUESTRA HISTORIA.

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JÁ GANHEI DE VOCÊ CARTÃO, E ESTÁ POSTADO EM MEUS MIMOS.
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ME PERMITA AMIGA, REPASSAR PARA TODOS OS MEUS AMIGOS QUE POR AQUI PASSAM.
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The World Turned Upside Down

This map is not “upside down”. It looks that way to us; the sense that north is up is a deeply ingrained one. It's grim up north, Dixie is away down south. Yet this is pure convention. The earth is a sphere in space. It has a north and a south, but no up and down.

There’s a famous experiment involving four guys and a door. An unsuspecting test subject is lured into a conversation with a stranger, actually a psychologist. After a few moments, two people appear carrying a large door, and they walk right between the subject and the experimenter.

Behind the door, the experimenter swaps places with one of the door carriers, who may be quite different in voice and appearance. Most subjects don't notice the swap. Perception is lazy: whenever it can get away with it, it merely tells us that things are as we expect, rather than actually showing us stuff. We often do not really perceive things at all. Did the subject really see the first guy? The second? Either?

The inverted map makes us actually see the Earth's geography, rather than just showing us the expected "countries" and "continents". I was struck by how parochial Europe is – the whole place is little more than a frayed end of the vast Eurasian landmass, no more impressive than the one at the other end, Russia's Chukotski. Africa dominates the scene: it can no longer be written off as that poor place at the bottom.

One of the most common observations in psychotherapy of people with depression or anxiety is that they hold themselves to impossibly high standards, although they have a perfectly sensible evaluation of everyone else. Their own failures are catastrophic; other people's are minor setbacks. Other people's successes are well-deserved triumphs; their own are never good enough, flukes, they don't count.

The first step in challenging these unhelpful patterns of thought is to simply point out the double-standard: why are you such a perfectionist about yourself, when you're not when it comes to other people? The idea being to help people to think about themselves in more like healthy way they already think about others. Turn the map of yourself upside down - what do you actually see?

The World Turned Upside Down

This map is not “upside down”. It looks that way to us; the sense that north is up is a deeply ingrained one. It's grim up north, Dixie is away down south. Yet this is pure convention. The earth is a sphere in space. It has a north and a south, but no up and down.

There’s a famous experiment involving four guys and a door. An unsuspecting test subject is lured into a conversation with a stranger, actually a psychologist. After a few moments, two people appear carrying a large door, and they walk right between the subject and the experimenter.

Behind the door, the experimenter swaps places with one of the door carriers, who may be quite different in voice and appearance. Most subjects don't notice the swap. Perception is lazy: whenever it can get away with it, it merely tells us that things are as we expect, rather than actually showing us stuff. We often do not really perceive things at all. Did the subject really see the first guy? The second? Either?

The inverted map makes us actually see the Earth's geography, rather than just showing us the expected "countries" and "continents". I was struck by how parochial Europe is – the whole place is little more than a frayed end of the vast Eurasian landmass, no more impressive than the one at the other end, Russia's Chukotski. Africa dominates the scene: it can no longer be written off as that poor place at the bottom.

One of the most common observations in psychotherapy of people with depression or anxiety is that they hold themselves to impossibly high standards, although they have a perfectly sensible evaluation of everyone else. Their own failures are catastrophic; other people's are minor setbacks. Other people's successes are well-deserved triumphs; their own are never good enough, flukes, they don't count.

The first step in challenging these unhelpful patterns of thought is to simply point out the double-standard: why are you such a perfectionist about yourself, when you're not when it comes to other people? The idea being to help people to think about themselves in more like healthy way they already think about others. Turn the map of yourself upside down - what do you actually see?

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Brain Stimulation Can Stop the Rock

Isn't it annoying when you get a song stuck in your head? Like, say, this one:

Stop the rock, stop the rock
Stop the rock, stop the rock
Stop the rock, can't stop the rock
You can't stop the rock, stop the rock
Stop the rock, can't stop the rock
You can't stop the rock, can't stop the rock. etc.

- Apollo 440, "Stop the Rock"

You'll probably be stuck with that tune for a few minutes, but with any luck it'll go away eventually. However, for the 63-year old Italian man reported on in a new paper by Cosentino et al., the melodic misery never stopped.

The patient had suffered from partial hearing loss for 20 years, probably as a result of his work as a stonemason, which involved a lot of loud noise. His real problems started, however, when he suffered a car accident which cause damage to his right temporal pole. This caused

continuous musical hallucinations in the form of popular songs by Renato Carosone ... the songs were the ones he often used to listen to when he was younger. The volume of the musical hallucinations was initially low, and then became progressively louder; it was perceived in the middle of head and changed in severity over the course of the day. The intensity of the hallucinations evaluated through an arbitrary scale ranging from 0 (no hallucinations) to 10 (unbearable hallucinations) varied from 5 to 8 during the day.

The spectral songs didn't directly interfere with his life, but they were extremely annoying. He reported no other symptoms, his hearing was no worse than it had been before the accident, all neuropsychological tests were normal, and he had no history of any neurological or psychiatric problems.

Doctors tried to control the harmonic hallucinations with a range of anti-epileptic drugs, but they didn't work. A PET scan showed reduced brain activity in the area which was damaged, but increased activity in the posterior temporal lobe. Maybe this was to blame for the problems.

So Cosentino et al. decided to use repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to suppress activity in the offending part of the brain. rTMS uses strong magnetic fields to stimulate the brain; through some unknown neurobiological process, it can, in the long term, lead to reduced activity.

rTMS was given 5 days per week for 2 weeks. After the first week, the patient reported that the music had got a lot quieter and after another week, it was gone. A few months later it started again, but far quieter than before and only occasionally. The patient was offered more treatment but he said it wouldn't be worth it, because the hallucinations were no longer annoying. A second PET scan showed normalization of the activity...maybe (see the picture above; A=before B=after.)

There was no placebo condition, so it's hard to know whether this was a true effect of the magnetic stimulation, but the fact that a number of drugs hadn't worked suggests that it wasn't merely a placebo effect. So it turns out that you can Stop the Rock. Or at least, you can Stop the Canzone Napoletana of Renato Carosone. Whether the Rock is harder to Stop is a topic for future research.

Cosentino, G., Giglia, G., Palermo, A., Panetta, M., Lo Baido, R., Brighina, F., & Fierro, B. (2010). A case of post-traumatic complex auditory hallucinosis treated with rTMS Neurocase, 16 (3), 267-272 DOI: 10.1080/13554790903456191

Brain Stimulation Can Stop the Rock

Isn't it annoying when you get a song stuck in your head? Like, say, this one:

Stop the rock, stop the rock
Stop the rock, stop the rock
Stop the rock, can't stop the rock
You can't stop the rock, stop the rock
Stop the rock, can't stop the rock
You can't stop the rock, can't stop the rock. etc.

- Apollo 440, "Stop the Rock"

You'll probably be stuck with that tune for a few minutes, but with any luck it'll go away eventually. However, for the 63-year old Italian man reported on in a new paper by Cosentino et al., the melodic misery never stopped.

The patient had suffered from partial hearing loss for 20 years, probably as a result of his work as a stonemason, which involved a lot of loud noise. His real problems started, however, when he suffered a car accident which cause damage to his right temporal pole. This caused

continuous musical hallucinations in the form of popular songs by Renato Carosone ... the songs were the ones he often used to listen to when he was younger. The volume of the musical hallucinations was initially low, and then became progressively louder; it was perceived in the middle of head and changed in severity over the course of the day. The intensity of the hallucinations evaluated through an arbitrary scale ranging from 0 (no hallucinations) to 10 (unbearable hallucinations) varied from 5 to 8 during the day.

The spectral songs didn't directly interfere with his life, but they were extremely annoying. He reported no other symptoms, his hearing was no worse than it had been before the accident, all neuropsychological tests were normal, and he had no history of any neurological or psychiatric problems.

Doctors tried to control the harmonic hallucinations with a range of anti-epileptic drugs, but they didn't work. A PET scan showed reduced brain activity in the area which was damaged, but increased activity in the posterior temporal lobe. Maybe this was to blame for the problems.

So Cosentino et al. decided to use repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to suppress activity in the offending part of the brain. rTMS uses strong magnetic fields to stimulate the brain; through some unknown neurobiological process, it can, in the long term, lead to reduced activity.

rTMS was given 5 days per week for 2 weeks. After the first week, the patient reported that the music had got a lot quieter and after another week, it was gone. A few months later it started again, but far quieter than before and only occasionally. The patient was offered more treatment but he said it wouldn't be worth it, because the hallucinations were no longer annoying. A second PET scan showed normalization of the activity...maybe (see the picture above; A=before B=after.)

There was no placebo condition, so it's hard to know whether this was a true effect of the magnetic stimulation, but the fact that a number of drugs hadn't worked suggests that it wasn't merely a placebo effect. So it turns out that you can Stop the Rock. Or at least, you can Stop the Canzone Napoletana of Renato Carosone. Whether the Rock is harder to Stop is a topic for future research.

Cosentino, G., Giglia, G., Palermo, A., Panetta, M., Lo Baido, R., Brighina, F., & Fierro, B. (2010). A case of post-traumatic complex auditory hallucinosis treated with rTMS Neurocase, 16 (3), 267-272 DOI: 10.1080/13554790903456191