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mind/soul (unloved babies, etc.)

Carol drcomet at utdallas.edu
Sun Nov 1 00:55:55 EST 1998


OK,

F. Frank LeFever wrote in message <71gmqv$6pa at sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com>...

>showed to my own students), I'm not so sure they did get everything
>except love; a significant degree of malnutrition was involved, as

    I know, it seems as though experiments done with human beings can never
do enough to screen out those "confounding" variables ...  not to mention
the ethical problem here.

>oon the effects of early experience/maternal-infant interaction on
>brain fine-grain neurochemical neuroanatomy, see a series of papers by
>Michael Meaney and colleagues (working out of McGill).

    Thank you.  You're the second person I've read that has recommended
Meaney's research.

>clearly does not understand very well.  Exactly what threat does he
>perceive?

    Rigid thinking ...  that's all ... sometimes it's hard to be open-minded
after you have spent so much time and energy getting to where you are at ...

>concealing--WHAT???  What on earth do these people imagine?

    Maybe they'll come out of the woodwork and tell us.

>constituents respond, he would not demand to know why cells do not all
>react the same way because they all have the same DNA.

    Even us undergrads understand this one.

>as well) have had these same insights, long before, and either accepted
>them as truisms widely known, or elaborated on them and developed them
>further, or rejected them--depending on how the insight held up against
>experience.

    Experience, yes.  I'm just here to second the motion...

Carol







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