SOCIAL ROAD MAPS IN OUR BRAINS. There is firm evidence that our brains use ‘maps’ to understand and work with social relationships – how distant or close individuals are to one another (affiliation) and where we and others sit on our social network (hierarchies and other relationships). The ‘structural school’ of family therapy observed and described this in the nineteen sixties and seventies but now we know some of the basis in brain function for these essential functions and skills……
CONNECTING CUT/BROKEN NERVES. New hope. If a nerve is injured (eg. industrial or battle injuries), the nerve ends can often be rejoined with microsurgery, or, if there is a gap, with a nerve taken from another part of the person’s body. These researchers may have found a way to bridge the gap between the remaining nerves without taking a nerve from elsewhere in the person’s body. Their technique uses a biodegradable tube to guide the regrowing nerve and microspheres containing…..