No documentary that I recently watched made me cry except this one 
http://youtu.be/HLkgE1xKMLg
I'm sure everyone remembers the Canadian Forces Captain Trevor Greene who's brain was nearly split into two when an Afghan man striked him in the head with an axe in 2006. He even lost some grey matter in Afghanistan. The attack left him paralysed in that his motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls movement, was severely damaged. He could barely lift a finger and was told he'd never walk again. But today he can eat and drink with his own hands, stand up on his own two feet, and do as many as 30 squats. He recently began using a walking machine called a Lokomat. It supports him in a harness and moves his legs on a treadmill, slowly putting more weight on his feet. “After the fifth time, in the middle of the workout, my muscle memory came back,” Mr. Greene says. “It was like my body remembered how to walk. The sixth time it was automatic.” He still has a long way to go before he can walk independently.
His survival and recovery is simply phenomenal and his brain's transformation is being researched and documented by two scientists - National Research Council neuroscientist Ryan D’Arcy and University of Victoria’s Stephen Lindsay, a cognitive psychologist. My Greene's case goes to show that the human brain is not like a computer that, when it loses a chip, the data is gone forever. Instead, other parts of the brain take over. New connections between his brain and body slowly replace the ones he lost.
The study is ongoing and has not been published yet. I am really looking forward to reading the findings. A normal functioning brain, something we take for granted, is a huge naymat of Allah swt Alhumdulillah.
http://youtu.be/HLkgE1xKMLgI'm sure everyone remembers the Canadian Forces Captain Trevor Greene who's brain was nearly split into two when an Afghan man striked him in the head with an axe in 2006. He even lost some grey matter in Afghanistan. The attack left him paralysed in that his motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls movement, was severely damaged. He could barely lift a finger and was told he'd never walk again. But today he can eat and drink with his own hands, stand up on his own two feet, and do as many as 30 squats. He recently began using a walking machine called a Lokomat. It supports him in a harness and moves his legs on a treadmill, slowly putting more weight on his feet. “After the fifth time, in the middle of the workout, my muscle memory came back,” Mr. Greene says. “It was like my body remembered how to walk. The sixth time it was automatic.” He still has a long way to go before he can walk independently.
His survival and recovery is simply phenomenal and his brain's transformation is being researched and documented by two scientists - National Research Council neuroscientist Ryan D’Arcy and University of Victoria’s Stephen Lindsay, a cognitive psychologist. My Greene's case goes to show that the human brain is not like a computer that, when it loses a chip, the data is gone forever. Instead, other parts of the brain take over. New connections between his brain and body slowly replace the ones he lost.
The study is ongoing and has not been published yet. I am really looking forward to reading the findings. A normal functioning brain, something we take for granted, is a huge naymat of Allah swt Alhumdulillah.
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