ABSTRACT
What are the implications of the above formulations for the future, especially for the future of therapy? The approach presented may lead to the conceptualization of more effective therapeutic interventions in the future. It is evident that in order to improve brain organization, effective control over plasticity must be achieved. Improved brain organization is relevant for “corrective” interventions involving disturbances that have been consolidated. In effect it would be extremely beneficial if brain connectivity could be controlled to allow for higher plasticity dynamics. In effect this would be allowing brain plasticity to become pliable, as in the early developmental years, when it is amenable to change and reshaping. Thus a basic condition for any corrective therapeutic activity in the brain involves “synaptogenetic control.” Once synaptogenesis is increased there will be a need for an additional intervention in order to create a synaptogenetic change, in accord with Hebbian dynamics (described in Chapter 3). Two categories of interventions will be necessary: “experience control” and direct “brain pacing.”
