Do these errors point toward a level of perfunctory analysis?

What should I think of the “Mr.” and “himself” typing errors
in my Neuropsychological Evaluation? Do these errors point toward
a level of perfunctory analysis?

Overview of Testing	1985	2008	2012
Verbal IQ (VIQ)(The resource for ranges on table below? The best one that I could find in Google was at: http://childparenting.about.com/cs/learningproblems/a/wisciii_2.htm) Very Low:  – 73 Low: 74 – 81Below Average: 82 – 88 Low Average: 89 – 96 Average: 97 – 103 High Average: 104 – 111 Above Average: 112 – 118 High: 119 – 126 Very High: 127 – “Your VIQ score is indicative of your ability to work with abstract symbols, your verbal memory skills and fluency abilities, as well as the amount of education you have had, and whether you actually benefited from that education.” From http://provereal.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-fsiq-viq-piq-general-discussion.html	121	89	102
IQ (PIQ)“Your PIQ score indicates your ability to work with concrete situations, to work quickly, to integrate perceptual stimuli with motor responses, as well as your visual spatial ability.” From http://provereal.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-fsiq-viq-piq-general-discussion.html	126	81	106
Full-Scale IQ (FSIQ)(The resource for ranges on table below? The best one that I could find in Google was at:http://childparenting.about.com/cs/learningproblems/a/wisciii_2.htm)Intellectually Deficient: <69 Borderline : 70-79 Low Average: 80-89 Average : 90 and 109 High Average : 110-119 Superior: 120-129 Very Superior : 130+	113	84	104

Why does the summary not note a change in my JOLO (Raw Score): 22 in 2008 => 29 in 2012? Why don’t I understand how to see a recommendation for that strength? Did I miss something?

Social Media Research is a Matter of Personal Interest

 

I believe that social media has helped me healing, though I don’t know how to measure it.
Scott Husband notes a study finding a correlation between the size of some areas of the brain and the use of
Facebook on his blog: http://thebrainexplained.com/facebook-grows-your-brain/

I remember choosing to join Facebook towards the end of my Communications Therapy. I had felt like I had come so far in this therapy. I was driven to remain mindful for the rest of my life of consciously including more nouns, instead of pronouns, and the 5Ws. Facebook gave me a place to go to try to comment.

When the schedules of my friends couldn’t allow them to stop over to visit me, and transportation was difficult for me to arrange, and I was tired from a medical crisis, I wasn’t as isolated, because I could log on to touch-base through social media.

I guess this is my thinking on the supportive role of social media and the Internet in general in my healing thus far I was very excited to come across this post. Thanks, Scott!

I’m looking for more awareness…Can you help?

Could eye exercise as simple as watching television while wearing pinhole glasses effectively be an exercise for my brain?

I’m pretty sure no scientific evidence that could suggest “yes” exists, though I haven’t really tried to Google this question.

Many of the things that I try to do are ideas I come across that I think of in terms many people may see as out of the box thinking.

If you can help me in my search for more awareness by sharing an idea with me, please do. My e-mail address is 4happyme@gmail.com.

The truth is you can’t hid your discoveries, you just have to run with them as far as you are able!

Daily Activities

List I Focus On:

Transition to/from sleep with harmony using my Peaceful Progression Wake Up Clock
Take the time to taste what I eat – especially strawberries!
Do Energy Exercises
Try to recall the sound of C (When does a C sound like a C?!?!)
Try to recall images and words on my homemade flashcards
Read and write
Work with photos
Practice piano scales
Train in Lumosity training
Train in the Khan Academy

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Master List

See something. Outline it afterward.
Memorize music
Exercise peripheral vision
Do a jigsaw puzzle
Play with a basketball
Use my left hand
Walk on uneven surfaces
Sleep well
Eat dark chocolate
Eat fish
Practice Stoicism
Notes (often) from: http://www.positscience.com/human-brain/brain-fitness/brain-fitness-tips
Kinds of Memory
Autobiographical Memory
Explicit Memory
Implicit Memory
Long-Term Memory
Short-Term Memory – passive
Short-Term Memory – working memory (using it, storing it, and so on)
Memory Measurements
Attention (how one acquires memory through attention to detail) 1. Focused attention, 2. Sustained attention. 3. Divided attention.
Speed (how one accesses memory and draw connections between memories)
Flexibility (how one draws new connections)
Location memory
Math processing speed
Processing speed
Short term memory (per sort memory)
Spatial memory
Visual memory
Speed
Sense memory (Visual, Feeling, Hearing, Touch, Smell – elements within working memory)
Does experience emotionally belong here? Do we experience emotions like we sense?
Abstract concepts (an element of working memory)
Internal Noise
doubt
fear
impulse
imagination
resist
pain
adrenaline
Habits
See something. Outline it afterward.
Memorize music
Exercise peripheral vision
Do a jigsaw puzzle
Play with a basketball
Use my left hand
Walk on uneven surfaces
Sleep well
Eat dark chocolate
Eat fish
Practice Stoicism
Notes (often) from: http://www.positscience.com/human-brain/brain-fitness/brain-fitness-tips
Learn to juggle
Repeat to remember. Remember to repeat
Memorize something every day.
Smile more often.
Start your day off right. Wake up and set aside an hour for personal development activities
Utilize ‘The Burning Method.’
The Rubber Band Method
Meditate everyday for at least 20 minutes.
Work out those abs.
Read something inspirational right before bed and after waking.
Notes (often) from: http://www.highexistence.com/life-secrets-and-tips/

Defining the problem: Coming to the Point

Recently, before I started this blog, I was watching an episode of the television series Farscape called Exodus. When Zhaan said she felt “like we’re imprisoned in this room with the ship just out of reach. I was within my own mind but I couldn’t reach past and feel what I wanted,” I paused the show and said to my husband that that is my reality.

It must be a reality that someone else is familiar with or it couldn’t have been written into the script.

Now the hard part for me is communicating in a way that others can understand the point I am trying to make, as in this blog entry with this opening. Why is this hard for me to do? I cannot say.

I can come in close proximity to the substance of what I want to say, but I cannot say it. Saying it is unreachable for me today.

This reality is true is spite of the fact that I have so much capacity that I use effectively day in and day out.

What I often find myself doing rather than coming to the point and addressing the issue, whatever it happens to be, is speaking in metaphors. For example, as I was composing this post, I tried to find a way to fit in a thought about how mathematics (specifically finance) is a language which I don’t really understand, yet. Now, this metaphor made perfect sense to me, but when I mentioned it to my husband, Bear. He got that vacant, blank expression on his face — that told me he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.

That is part of the issue – I sometimes can only recognize that I’m trying to make a point. I often try to find a  metaphor. The metaphor can be too obscure for other people to follow.