Babies, Brains, Nature and Nurture - An Introduction to the Interview with Dr Stuart Shanker

Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bi6x-4aNmM

A brief discussion of the article that first prompted me to contact Dr. Shanker for the interview, which is posted below...

The article I am reading from: http://www.fdrurl.com/babiesbrains

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Tags:

• brain
• development
• babies
• nature
• nurture
• parenting
• mental
• health
• psychology
• philosophy

[UKLooney]

Great intro, gonna watch the interview now, might have skipped it otherwise.

[natdavi]

absolutely essential in making the world a better place ... I couldn't agree more

[LLOYD19851012]

This video explains why i'm stupid.

[djlookwood]

The Natural Expectations of every child are crucial in terms of how the child grows into a healthy empathic adult - to the extent that those natural intrinsic expectations are not met, dysfunction ensues....

The ACE study reveals the costs of not meeting those expectations.

Keep it comin' Stefan!

[S1L3nCe]

Mozart is death so it might not be as relevant as doing a bit of introspection and analyze ourselves. It is not very complicated to find what is in your nature and what is nurture once you are "awake" and learn from real experience and not prejudices.

[golefevre]

So...Mozart's father was a nurturer? Hmmm....is there perhaps a soul in the equation of human personality that is that undefinable element?

[whitenightf3]

Not true think of the brain as a radio, take out the transmitter and the radio no longer works. Its similar with the brain. Now starfish exhibit conscious behaviour but they have no brains. Your materalistic model is not doing to well and I refer you back to the quote by Dr Leschner. There is NO DEFINABLE BRAIN TISSUE. That means what it says there is no brain. BTW its not dualism that I propose but Mono idealism go read it up.

[lnd3005]

*hydrocephalus (2nd)

[lnd3005]

He alluded to some cases of hydrocephalus which purportedly demonstrated the plasticity of the brain, which is not the same thing as demonstrating your spiritualist/dualist nonsense. Congenital hydrencephalus is not the same thing as the lack of a brain.

The lobotomy demonstrates that consciousness comes from the brain, b/c lobotomies alter or completely destroy consciousness.

[whitenightf3]

Hydrancephaly is very common - we see several case a year at our university hospital -

but there's a tremendous difference between having a regional area of brain

maldevelopment, and having a condition called extreme hydrancephaly, where there is

NO DEFINABLE residual brain tissue.

Dr Robert Leshner who is Professor of peadiatric neurology at the Medical

College Virginia US.

[whitenightf3]

Right at the start of the interview the Doctor mentions the cases that are in the medical literature, you must have popped out for a lobotomy when he mentioned it.

So you are wrong there are cases of extreme hydrancephaly here is what one neurologist said about the Vandal case:

[lnd3005]

Yes, they have been able to show that to be true. Do you know what a lobotomy is?

And the cases in the medical literature, which you mentioned, do not exist. A person w/o a brain can't even breathe, much less be "sentient."