[re+think]

What do you do after spending a weekend immersed in a course with Drs. Nancy Byl, Alison McKenzie and Mike Merzenich, all prominent researchers in the neuroscience and physical therapy worlds? First, you give your brain a break by indulging in fantastic San Francisco vegan cuisine; and then you share it in a blog post!
 Erin and I spent a weekend in July attending a course entitled “Sensorimotor Processing Dysfunction and Movement Dysfunction: Focal Dystonia and Complex Regional Pain Syndromes”.   We spent cold summer San Francisco days at UCSF learning from the masters and wanted to share some of the pearls of wisdom we gained. Though we could write a book about all we learned, we are going to try to condense it to our top 5, here we go: 1) The plastic brain: for better or for worse. For worse: dystonia is aberrant plasticity and learning. For better: we can use the principles of plasticity to improve and drive change!
 2) Principles in treatment focal dysto