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For most of my life, I knew I was experiencing the world differently. Before I understood the words someone was saying, I noticed subtle changes in their tone of voice. I registered the hum of fluorescent lights, the texture of…
For most of my life, I knew I was experiencing the world differently.
Before I understood the words someone was saying, I noticed subtle changes in their tone of voice. I registered the hum of fluorescent lights, the texture of clothing, faint odors that others seemed unaware of, and shifts in a room’s emotional atmosphere. My attention was drawn almost automatically to inconsistencies, patterns, and small details that often escaped those …
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Sensory processing in autism and the brain’s volume control
Conditions and diseases
MOG antibody-associated disease is typically understood as an autoimmune disorder in which antibodies target myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein, producing demyelination and relapsing neurological symptoms. This antibody-centered model has been clinically useful, but it may be incomplete in explaining why disease expression…
MOG antibody-associated disease is typically understood as an autoimmune disorder in which antibodies target myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein, producing demyelination and relapsing neurological symptoms. This antibody-centered model has been clinically useful, but it may be incomplete in explaining why disease expression varies so widely between individuals, why some patients recover remarkably well between attacks, and why similar immunologic profiles can lead to very different trajectories over time. In my independent conceptual …
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Why MOG antibody disease is more than antibodies
Conditions and diseases
In 2022, during a hospitalization following an extreme psychological and physiological crisis, I experienced something I struggled to describe using existing clinical language. What followed did not feel like recovery, coping, or reframing. It felt like a complete neurological and…
In 2022, during a hospitalization following an extreme psychological and physiological crisis, I experienced something I struggled to describe using existing clinical language. What followed did not feel like recovery, coping, or reframing. It felt like a complete neurological and existential reorganization.
As a researcher and writer grounded in trauma science, I searched for frameworks that could explain the magnitude and durability of the change. Post-traumatic growth (PTG) came closest. Yet …
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Post-traumatic growth is not just cognitive reframing
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