by Peter | Sep 23, 2026 | brain, research, right
Another example of the ubiquity of ‘right’. The article is not about the brain growing as a right as opposed to a left brain. It is simply about about brains develop. For decades, many scientists have thought that a single type of starter cell gives rise...
by Peter | Aug 24, 2026 | brain, education, write
First a general comment. Dr Max Pemberton is experiencing the same kind of vested interest opposition that Profs Elliott & Grigorenko experienced several years ago on the publication of their The Dyslexia Debate. Elliott and Grigorenko’ were not saying that...
by Peter | May 27, 2026 | brain, education, hand, left-right, write
Saying “I know which is my left hand because I write with it!” is is not an expected justification for knowing the left from the right hand. More typically one hears “I know my right hand because I write with it!” And as such, the left / write...
by Peter | Apr 28, 2026 | brain, education, hand, write
This paper, I Don’t Know What’s Right and What’s Wrong : Parent Perceptions of Support and Progress of Their Children With Handwriting Difficulties was published by Literacy UKLA vol 60 Issue 2 This study was to understand parents’ perceptions...
by Peter | Apr 17, 2026 | ADHD, Big Pharma, brain, handedness, left-right
There at least three answers to the question of what is ADHD: It is a ‘medical condition, first described in symptom terms in 1798 by the Scottish physician Sir Alexander Crichton as “the incapacity of attending with a necessary degree of constancy to any one...
by Peter | Jan 9, 2024 | brain
The role of the hands (mouth and family) in recovering from showing no signs of brain activity. Rupert Johnston had been in a coma for two months after a horrific car crash in February 1997 and was showing no signs of brain activity. Doctors advised turning off the...
