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  • Reviewed by esinecan on Jun 18, 12:44pm

    the thing with stumbling is, you find a great amount of pages promising extraordinary things (mostly in news sites or in the form of an announcement in some blog). but it is never detailed enough to actually work and very often researching the subject turns out to be fruitless. If, like, %10 of the interesting developments i have seen on stumbleupon reached our daily lives, we would be living a utopia.

  • Rated by Baldrin on Jun 17, 11:26pm

    The brain is very flexible and is able to 'rewire' itself. But this article gets a thumbs down for being just fucking retarded. "She fixed her own brain". What does that even mean? What does it mean to fix a brain? What constitutes a broken brain? "for twelve hours a day over many months, she used her self-created exercises to stimulate the weak areas of her brain and achieved extraordinary results. Finally, she was able to tell time, understand logic and understand conversations in real time. " If a person can create stimulating creative exercises with the purpose of sharpening brain function and then do that for 12 hours a day for many months then they don't have a 'broken brain'. Let me sum up everything that the article says along with what the documentary says. I'll put it in caps to add emphasis. A WOMAN WASN'T VERY GOOD AT EXECUTING A PARTICULAR THOUGHT PROCESS. SHE THEN HAD THE REALIZATION THAT IF YOU STUDY SOMETHING YOU CAN LEARN HOW TO DO IT. THEN A BUNCH OF US FREAKED THE FUCK OUT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON AND FELL FOR THE HYPE THIS WOMAN WAS SPEWING FORTH. And please don't be awestruck that she wasn't very good at telling time. Most everyone learns to count using base 10. When I was at the University I had to learn to count in base 2(binary), base 8(Octal) and base 16(Hexadecimal). And guess what? It was a little difficult at first. When you read a clock all you are doing is counting in base 60. So her huge achievement of learning to read a clock is on par with someone learning to count in binary. Just because you can't read an analog clock very well doesn't mean your 'brain is broken'. It means you need to practice reading analog clocks.

  • Rated by mclovingood on Jun 17, 10:20pm

    i need this.

  • Reviewed by dribnif on Jun 17, 10:05am

    This for real?

  • Reviewed by bleueyedson on Jun 17, 9:15am

    From the page: "Barbara Arrowsmith's training system is still the only one of its kind in the world and her role as a visionary leader in education is only now being acknowledged. Fixing My Brain was directed by Christina Pochmursky and produced by Vanessa Dylyn of Matter of Fact Media (Toronto) in association with CBC Newsworld."

  • Rated by texnofile on Jun 17, 7:46am

    A documentary about an early pioneer in what has come to be understood as neuroplasticity.

  • Rated by loveyoutodeathbu on Jun 17, 6:00am

    The story of Barbara Arrowsmith who improved her quality of thinking and reasoning through exercises she developed to work on specific areas of her brain.

  • Rated by vineetcoolguy on Jun 17, 5:12am

    Of course the brain isn't hard wired, the nervous system is rather one of the fastest adapting systems in the body. How do you think memories are made?