Learning to read in adulthood may lead to transformation of your brain
Learning to read in adulthood may lead to transformation of your brain
In Adulthood, When A Completely Illiterate Person Learns To Read And Write, There Is A Change In Human Brain And It Reorganises Itself Significantly.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Navnidhi Chugh | Updated on: 26 May 2017, 11:02:18 PM
New Delhi:
In adulthood, when a completely illiterate person learns to read and write, there is a change in human brain and it reorganises itself significantly.
The findings were based on women from rural areas in India. the findings showed that learning process resulted in re-organisation that extends to deep brain structures in thalamus and brainstem.
Though I pride myself on being familiar with Gandhi’s voluminous writings, there was one aspect of his thinking that never registered with me until I saw the back window of a truck the other day with a death’s head on the rear window and a bumper sticker that read, “Politically incorrect and proud of it.” When people call themselves “the Proud Boys” and display bumper stickers like that, what they’re telling us, between the lines, is they feel disrespected. We had better listen to them. Psychiatrist James Gilligan, who worked with men incarcerated for violent crimes for 25 years, reported that, “I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed.”
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