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The Neural Architecture of Transformation: Bridging Dąbrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration and Hyperneuroplasticity
Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration anticipated what neuroscience now begins to affirm: certain nervous systems are built for transformation. Hyperneuroplasticity may provide the biological foundation for developmental potential, with the third factor as its governing mechanism and multilevelness as its structural expression.

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 24, 20259 min read


Hyperneuroplasticity, Nitric Oxide, and Dynamic Brain-Body States
Bringing all these seemingly random threads of dynamic brain states, nitric oxide, and neurodivergence together highlights how hyperneuroplasticity involves the intimate coupling of brain and body.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 12, 20259 min read


Dynamic Systems, Process Metaphysics, and Hyperneuroplasticity: Stability Through Flux
Epigenetics illustrates how coherence at the cellular level is achieved through regulatory processes that are themselves mutable. Process metaphysics explains this at the level of being, while hyperneuroplasticity captures it in the lived experience of certain neurobiological profiles. Whether at the scale of molecules, neural networks, or whole organisms, stability arises by transforming with change rather than resisting it.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 3, 20259 min read


Stress, the Amygdala, and Hyperneuroplasticity
a hyperneuroplastic brain is like a high-speed recorder. It takes a snapshot of stressful or threatening experiences and plays them back on repeat, long after the danger is gone. That rapid wiring can be life-saving in moments of real threat, yet it also explains why stress can leave such deep grooves, making it harder to shake habits of fear, vigilance, or avoidance once they’ve been learned.

Dr. Patty Gently
Aug 18, 20256 min read


The Complex Role of Histamine in the Hyperneuroplastic System (Beyond Allergies and Into the Systemic Web)
Elevated central histamine may also intensify sensory reactivity and lower stress tolerance, particularly in hyperneuroplastic individuals.

Dr. Patty Gently
Aug 9, 202512 min read


Hyperneuroplasticity as the Umbrella Neurodivergence for Deep Neural Adaptation
For years, we've been handed diagnostic fragments. Each label attempts to describe a set of traits, challenges, or neurological styles. Yet beneath the variation, there is a shared thread running through many of these lived experiences, one that rarely gets named directly: a nervous system that adapts quickly, deeply, and often at great cost.

Dr. Patty Gently
Jul 8, 20259 min read


Galvanic Systems: A Deeper Dive into the Metaphor, with Help from a Marine Engineer
And like ships designed for long, demanding journeys, galvanic individuals need regular maintenance, conscious design, and systems that help them stay afloat, without corroding in silence, sinking into hidden spaces, or wrecking against unattended shores.

Dr. Patty Gently
Jul 8, 20256 min read


Rethinking Giftedness Through a Galvanic Frame
The word felt loaded with assumptions I never agreed to: exceptionalism, elitism, overachievement, even ease. None of these described my inner world...

Dr. Patty Gently
Jul 8, 20257 min read


The Autistic Mind: An Interplay of Monotropic Autologs and Autotrophic Monologues
Here, I propose a conceptual framework using two metaphoric constructs: the monotropic autolog and the autotrophic monologue. These concepts draw from both emerging research in neurodivergent cognition and lived experiences of autistic individuals, offering language for phenomena often overlooked or mischaracterized in clinical settings.

Dr. Patty Gently
May 21, 20257 min read


On Estranged Parenthood: The Unspoken Grief
And the silence held by the reflective parent who could not take space can be reinterpreted as absence. And in the absence of context, silence becomes an abandonment where the memories never made get already discarded.

Dr. Patty Gently
May 10, 20254 min read


This Is How It Is
For the gifted individual, identity is thus a “fractal” phenomenon, in the sense that “selfhood” exists in layers.

Reuven Kotleras
Feb 21, 20254 min read


Navigating Growth: A Roadmap for Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration
This analogy of a vehicle, a path, an engine, and fuel offers a relatable way to understand Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintigration

Dr. Patty Gently
Dec 1, 20247 min read


Expanding Developmental Horizons: The Crucial Role of Imaginational Overexcitability
If you’ve ever felt like you experience the world much “more” than others, you are not alone, you are needed.

Dr. Patty Gently
Nov 27, 20248 min read


What is Radical Acceptance?
Those who know me well enough know that my favorite word is AND. Yes... AND.

Dr. Patty Gently
Nov 4, 20247 min read


Is Human Intuition Emotionally Aware?
While intuition is a natural cognitive process, it doesn't always flow easily.

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 17, 202410 min read


The Intensive Soul of Money: Learning Lessons that Add Value Beyond Bucks
growth and recovery become acts of self-care, where individuals can heal without feeling pressured to meet external expectations

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 15, 20245 min read


The Complexity of Parenting Neurodivergent, Gifted, and 2e Children: Why Traditional Advice Doesn’t Work
It’s about tuning in to your child’s world and making sure they feel like they belong in it.

Miranda Merrell
Sep 23, 20243 min read


Giftedness and Magical Thinking: How Magical Is It?
How many of us gifted pattern-finders and meaning-makers have been accused of magical thinking or something similar such as apophenia?

Dr. Patty Gently
Aug 28, 20248 min read


Is Giftedness a Neurodivergence?
So, from head-to-toe, a gifted person is different in a variety of ways, and certainly in how their neurology compares to neurotypical peers

Dr. Patty Gently
Jun 23, 20244 min read


The Pain Point: Between Too Much and Not Enough
...but what about when I am too much for myself?

Darlene Cunningham
Jan 14, 20245 min read
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