Outline perception is said to be done by the pons, as is “vital response to threatening sounds.” The midbrain does “creation of meaningful sound” and, in the area of visual competence, it is credited with “appreciation of detail within a configuration” and, in audition, with the “appreciation of meaning sounds.” Thus Doman and his collaborators demonstrate unfamiliarity with even the basics of neuroanatomy and localization of function. Students get 1 point for each error they identify. Doman’s chart is so full of neurological misinformation that I use it as an exam question in my junior/senior-level physiological psychology class. In the resulting 7-by-6 table, each of the 42 cells is assigned 1 or more functions said to be characteristic of that division of the brain for the “competence” in question. The “sophisticated” cortex sits like a cap atop the brain.Ĭompounding these errors, Doman’s profile is divided into 6 areas of “competence”: visual, auditory, tactile, mobile, language, and manual. The “primitive” cortex is above that, running in a strip from the inferior frontal lobe back to the middle parietal and superior occipital lobes. Doman’s “initial” cortex, for example, includes the inferior occipital and posterior inferior temporal lobes. These divisions of the cortex correspond to no accepted cytoarchitectonic regions. 1 Here, he divides the central nervous system into 7 areas: (1) spinal cord and medulla, (2) pons, (3) midbrain, (4) initial cortex, (5) early cortex, (6) primitive cortex, and (7) sophisticated cortex. This is most apparent in the “developmental profile” found in Doman’s 1999 book. Central to the patterning approach is the long-discredited view that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.” According to Delacato, 2(p5) “The ontogenetic development of each individual’s nervous system, in general, recapitulates that phylogenetic process.” Thus, the therapy is based on a view of the development and organization of the brain that is simply wrong. THEORETICAL BASESīefore reviewing empirical tests of the Doman/Delacato exercises, I will first outline the theoretical bases of the technique. The consequences of this blockage can allegedly be eliminated through what is termed “patterning” therapy, exercises that supposedly rewire the brain. Its core assumption is that brain damage causes a blockage in the normal pattern of brain development. 1 Doman-Delacato patterning therapy (DDPT) was developed in the 1940s and the 1950s by Doman, a physcial therapist Temple Fay, a neurosurgeon Robert Doman, a physiatrist and Carl Delacato, a psychologist. Details are contained in a popular book by Glenn Doman, founder, in 1955, of the Institutes. According to the Philadelphia-based Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, it has produced a noninvasive treatment for brain damage.
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