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Can a Parkinson’s brain actually grow back? What conventional neurology is missing.

Can a Parkinson’s Brain Actually Heal? When someone is diagnosed with Parkinson’s, they’re almost always handed the same story: it’s progressive, it’s neurodegenerative, and the best you can do is manage the decline. I don’t tell my patients to stop their standard Parkinson’s medications. They can genuinely help. But after more than 40 years practicing functional neuropsychiatry, I’ve come at this disease from a different angle, and what I’ve seen in my own patients tells a different story than the one most people are given. I recently hosted a talk walking through this in depth. You can watch the full
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The Room Is Doing Something to You: your brain never stops processing the room you are in

  Part 1 of 8 in the Psychoecology series by Dr. Katherine Morris   Your brain never stops processing the room you are in. Not when you are focused on something else, not when you are asleep, not when you think you have tuned it out. The hippocampus, that seahorse-shaped structure running your spatial navigation and your autobiographical memory out of the same neural tissue, is firing place cells right now, mapping where you are with the same circuitry it uses to organize who you have been. The amygdala has already assessed the proportions of your ceiling, the visibility of
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