But what about a man who loses the ability to form memories, or a woman who loses the possibility of words meaning anything? It seems impossible to imagine the conditions themselves, let alone how the brain 1 might seek to adjust. Or how someone stricken blind may develop a heightened sense of hearing to compensate. It is easy to understand how someone who loses his or her dominant hand may come to rely on, and in reliance augment, the use of the other. Not all neurological conditions are deficits some heighten their bearers' brain function in ways beyond our capacity to easily recognize.īut it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess–that there is always a reaction, on the part of the affected organism or individual, to restore, to replace, to compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.
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