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1New University of Buckinghamshire, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, United Kingdom. burnand.gordon@gmail.com
Medical Hypotheses
|April 25, 2012
Summary
Human brain hemispheres compete, impacting development and conditions like autism and schizophrenia. Self-pressuring activities can alleviate this hemispheric competition, offering a novel therapeutic insight.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Psychology
- Psychiatry
Background:
- A logical relationship exists among six life problems, linked to assessing hope and its subjective probability.
- Human brain hemispheres develop distinct predispositions and are joined around five months.
- Infants typically label unrelated activities using visual imagery for control.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the hypothesis that humans exploit a series of life problems with changing methods of assessing hope.
- To investigate the role of hemispheric competition in typical development and neurological/psychiatric conditions.
- To propose coherent theories for autism and schizophrenia based on hemispheric interaction.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of life problems and hope assessment.
- Hypothesizing evolutionary adaptations in brain structures for hemispheric function.
- Examining developmental milestones, including infant labeling and its disruption in autism.
- Reviewing potential etiological factors in autism (serotonin, myelination) and their modulation (omega oils).
- Analyzing the role of self-pressuring activities in managing hemispheric competition.
Main Results:
- Autistic children may fail at initial labeling, leading to uncontrolled hemispheric competition.
- Serotonin abnormalities or delayed myelination can impair labeling and contribute to autism.
- Long-chain omega oils may reduce the incidence of 'delay autism'.
- Self-pressuring activities, like play, relieve competition by increasing the influence of one hemisphere.
- Similar left-right hemispheric competition is observed in confused episodes and schizophrenia.
Conclusions:
- Hemispheric competition is a central factor in autism and schizophrenia.
- Disruptions in early labeling and sensory processing contribute to autism.
- Self-pressuring behaviors offer a primary mechanism for resolving hemispheric competition in these conditions.
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