Intriguing article on Integrating Areas of the Brain

Thought I would share an article I ran across today that helps me in my thinking about integrating the autistic mind.... and guiding children to develop different areas of their brains for whole brain decision making.

This article and recent neuroscience research lead us away from the simplistic view described in The Whole Brain Child (before the authors wrote No Drama Discipline) that there is a right and left hemisphere controlling either creativity (right) or logic (left). The probable story we can glean from now having active MRIs (or functional MRIs) is that different experiences and tasks activate specific areas of the brain.  When we are asked to solve more complex tasks or problems, more areas of the brain must be activated for solving that problem (e.g., logic, sensory experiences, past experiences) to then collaborate or interact together for full, creative, and sound decision making.

Our job, then, as parents with children with developing brains (or ones that may have more trouble with integrating regions) requires us to guide that process of integration.... leading us back to such books and parenting wisdom as No Drama Discipline for guiding children to better decision making.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/08/19/the-real-neuroscience-of-creativity/