I’m doing aqa and wasn’t sure if I needed to make flashcards on them
I understand that the Thalamus acts as the 'relay center' of the brain, taking in sensory signals and directing them to their appropriate structures. Are these two structures one of the same? I'm having trouble finding a clear answer online.
I posted a couple of weeks ago that my son had just had full body and brain/orbit MRIs. I had seen the report prior to our appointment with our NF specialist. It indicated an astrocytoma in the midbrain. The day before seeing the NF doc, we were with his Neuro Opthamologist; he had seen the scan and seemed very concerned.
So, our NF specialist was pretty chill about it. I love and trust her, but I’m still not comfortable with her advice on this one. She wants to wait and do another scan in 6 months. I realize that these gliomas are typically slow growing with NF, and this appears to be focal rather than diffuse, at least for now. Still, this is the “worst case” scenario I was given when he was first diagnosed. It was not visible on his scan 14 months ago, so that makes me feel it’s maybe not so slow, though of course it has to start showing up out of ‘nowhere’ at some point. He is not showing symptoms of a midbrain tumor, but the vision symptoms would be masked since he is blind in one eye.
His history includes diagnosis at 3.5 years old. At that time he had bilateral optic gliomas. With 12 months of chemo the smaller glioma was no longer visualized. The larger one stopped growing, but left him blind in that eye. He also has a large diffuse PNF all the way across his low back that doesn’t involve his spine (been there his whole life).
His full body scan this time around showed lots of new subcutaneous fibromas. The largest is in his thigh, which I understand needs to be watched especially carefully as the thigh apparently is a frequent location of fibromas becoming malignant.
One of you replied to describe your experience of a midbrain tumor that was successfully treated. Thank you!!! Your reply was very encouraging. Though I know that radiation would be a last resort at his age (12) because it can retard brain development up until about 16 years old, it’s great to know about such a wonderful success story.
I’m typically quite upbeat and optimistic, but this is hitting me hard and I’m trying to decide if I need to push back and get more action rather than wait 6 months.
So glad all of you are here!!
Two days ago, on day 7 of my CT, I received a vivitrol shot- or so I think. You see, vivitrol normally is fairly expensive. My doctor offered to give me a "leftover" dose for free. As a healthcare worker, I was very skeptical of this claim, but I took him up on it. Guess what my genius of a midbrain is telling me?
"He was just lying about it and giving you a saline placebo, you should try taking some kratom to find out."
Hey midbrain: I make decisions with my prefrontal cortex now, which is why I decided to get the shot in the first place. Pack your shit and go.
Hello! There's some confusion out there as to how remote viewing relates to the various instruction methods known as "seeing without eyes," "blindfolded sight," and "midbrain activation"
The methods, goals, claims, and available evidence are very different for these topics, although they may seem similar on the face of things.
This is a remote viewing subreddit. We recognize the interest in "blindfolded sight," and for now content and experiences with these are welcome here, but we would like to explain how the two loose categories are different from eachother, to avoid confusion.
And confusion is reasonable. The terms sound similar. They all refer to seeing. They all seem supernatural, right? Plus, both have been included in a documentary recently.
For me, the jury is out on "seeing without eyes" or "blindfolded sight." These are different from remote viewing. I have not experienced them.
Remote viewing is more accurately "remote perception," involving all of the senses and not just sight. The information can come in as a thought: "What do I smell? Smells like burning rubber." Or it can come as a flash of a bodily sensation, such as a sense of motion or texture. Or it can come as a brief visual like a daydream. How persistently these impressions stay and how immersive they are may depend on the viewer's skill level, natural talent, and mind state (awake/trance/asleep/etc).
Not having done "seeing without eyes," there appear to be many differences on the face of it from remote viewing:
The focus of remote viewing is the recording of accurate impressions, not in real time.
The focus of "seeing without eyes" is real time sight replacement.
The focus of RV is to gather information about an unknown objective distant in space and / or time.
The focus of "seeing without eyes" is to perceive the participant's immediate surroundings, from moment to moment.
Remote viewing methodologies are, at this point, mostly a matter of public record.
Instruction methods for "seeing without eyes" are proprietary.
RV impressions may be brief or symbolic in nature. Very concrete images, such as a strong, static image of a fire truck, are thought to have a higher chance of being at least subtly incorrect if experienced at certain stages of the p
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