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Hyperneuroplasticity Across the Lifespan
Looking across the lifespan, hyperneuroplasticity emerges as a systemic orientation that permeates every stage of development, rather than a temporary trait to be gained or lost.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 148 min read
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Hyperplasticity and the Double‑Edged Power of Excessive Adaptability... a means of further understanding hyperneuroplasticity
...hyperplasticity is a way of being that carries extraordinary creativity and real vulnerability, requiring balance and understanding rather than cure. It also illustrates a broader principle that runs through the entire conversation: adaptation must be balanced with stability.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 87 min read
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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 39 min read
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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 89 min read
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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 86 min read
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The Fullness of the Half-Empty Shelf
They did not cease to matter, but that I no longer needed their mattering to hold its form, or mine.

Reuven Kotleras
Jun 303 min read
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The Call of Orion: A Dream Interpretation
As I surveyed the room, I realized it would need renovation—not just in the physical sense, but as a reflection of my own evolution.

Reuven Kotleras
Dec 28, 20244 min read
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Finding My Meaning
I would have died from lack of oxygen trying to help those around me first.

Lacey Vasquez
Jun 15, 20242 min read
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Dealing With Big Feelings? You’re Not the Only One
By Youssef Sleiman Oct. 31, 2023 Quirky, wordy and lightning-fast at the keyboard, Youssef Sleiman is a professional writer and brand...

Youssef Sleiman
Oct 31, 20234 min read
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A Dream About Individuation
By Reuven Kotleras on July 25, 2023 Guest blogger Reuven Kotleras is a profoundly gifted ex-child and polymath. He has published...

Reuven Kotleras
Jul 25, 20234 min read
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What Gifted Means: A View Beyond Defining
By Youssef Sleiman on July 11, 2023 BISN board member Youssef Sleiman, a quirky, wordy professional writer based in Dallas, Texas, aims...

Youssef Sleiman
Jul 11, 20238 min read
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An Example of Autopsychotherapeutic Dream-Interpretation
By Reuven Kotleras on July 10, 2023 Guest blogger Reuven Kotleras is a profoundly gifted ex-child and polymath. He has published...

Reuven Kotleras
Jul 10, 202310 min read
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Identity Flow Like H2O
By Dr. Patty Williams on July 7, 2023 BISN founder and president Dr. Patty Williams is a trauma therapist who specializes in EMDR,...

Dr. Patty Gently
Jul 7, 20234 min read
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Dragasaurus and Extroverting as a Gifted Introvert
By Dr. Patty Williams on June 23, 2023 BISN founder and president Dr. Patty Williams is a trauma therapist who specializes in EMDR,...

Dr. Patty Gently
Jun 23, 20232 min read
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Writing About Writing About Giftedness & Trauma
I started out my book with a forward that I would like to share here. I think it is important and interesting enough...

Dr. Patty Gently
May 30, 20235 min read
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Neurodiversity
By Dr. Patty Williams on April 21, 2018 BISN founder and president Dr. Patty Williams is a trauma therapist who specializes in EMDR,...

Dr. Patty Gently
Apr 21, 20222 min read
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Goodness of Fit
By Dr. Patty Williams on August 25, 2018 BISN founder and president Dr. Patty Williams is a trauma therapist who specializes in EMDR,...

Dr. Patty Gently
Aug 25, 20182 min read
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