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Old Feb 23, 2013, 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by feralkittymom View Post
Everything I've read about trauma and neurology (another interest because of my mother's many strokes) suggests that reparative experiences do, in fact, create new synapses in the brain. New neural pathways are created. It is not hopeless.
I've heard this also, by one psychiatrist, in regard to one of my clients. He was convinced with a low dose of an anti-psychotic and positive experience, this client would break free from her autism.

Do you believe this might be true for someone developmentally disabled? Do you think there is hope for all people to heal?
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