Was River really ' cured' after finding out the truth of Miranda ?
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:30
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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Simon says they stripped her Amygdala.
Repeatedly.
Over and over again.
Stripped, not removed.
I had inferred that what had been stripped had kept growing back, hence the repetitive duplicate surgical stripping. I have only heard of it being a permanent condition fro people posting on forums, not from canon sources. You may choose to believe it permanent, I do not - until canon states so.
They cut into her brain over and over. They only stripped her amygdala once, which he notices AFTER he mentions the over-and-over part. I'm sure they actually did more than that to her brain.
And brain tissue is not really in the habit of growing back. Once you cut in there, that cut remains. Why else would brain damage be such a serious injury? I think the onus is on you proving that a stripped amygdala could actually grow back.
ETA: I googled around a bit and found nothing on spontanenous regeneration of the amygdala.
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At yahoo search, "brain regrowth" spawns almost a million hits, one of the top ones covering such complicated and technically unfathomable topics as "brain exercises" to regrow brain tissue.
"stemcell brain regrowth" alone gave over 76,000 hits.
The Verse is 500 years in the future - have they made no progress? Does the Amygdala itself need to be regrown, or just portions of it which were stripped?
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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
At yahoo search, "brain regrowth" spawns almost a million hits, one of the top ones covering such complicated and technically unfathomable topics as "brain exercises" to regrow brain tissue.
"stemcell brain regrowth" alone gave over 76,000 hits.
The Verse is 500 years in the future - have they made no progress? Does the Amygdala itself need to be regrown, or just portions of it which were stripped?
But those would be deliberate treatments to try and regenerate it. Not spontaneous regrowth that the Academy scientists were battling with continuous cutting.
With neurosurgical treatment, maybe River might be healed, I won't argue against that possibility. Getting that treatment would be the gargantuan challenge. So long as she doesn't, her brain stays scrambled - remember, the amygdala was not the only thing they did to her. Needle in her brain, chemicals, behavioral conditioning, etc. Layers of psychosis.
Anyway, I see no evidence of her brain spontaneously healing itself, the way you implied.
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