Additionally to the information you will have provided in the application, we need to know more about the environment in which MAPS will be implemented and be satisfied that it will be appropriate for brain repair.

• You would be able to sustain the same care in monitoring stress levels,
• You would be able to sustain the same care in monitoring interferences,
• You would be able to do the games twice a day, every day,
• You would be able to observe your loved one and detect the "clues" that we need in order to design the right programme for him/her every two weeks.

There are two ways to make this programme not work. They are easy to identify but not convenient to rectify.

Eliminate Stress

If it is not already, stress will become our number one enemy.

In order for MAPS to work, all we really need you to do is do what all parents already are doing. We just need you to be even more careful that your loved one's brain is not being bombarded with information that he/she does not understand and/or which could unsettle him/her.

Stress monopolises brain function and depletes Serotonin levels.

We need the brain to be free of stress or of urgent matters to deal with, if we want it to work on repairing itself. it's easy to understand that pain or discomfort would monopolise brain function, but imagine what happens to a brain who has trouble making sense of the environment.

Serotonin, among the many things it helps the brain to do, is a growth factor. Without adequate brain levels of Serotonin, it would be very difficult to activate and/or migrate nerve cells.

Eliminate interferences

Stress is one type of interference. Another way to interfere with the brain's efforts to re-arrange the way it is working as a positive response to the environment is to interrupt the process with activities that require the brain to focus its attention on a specific, challenging task.

The activities that we will give you to do with your loved one will only be triggers. If the brain is free of stress or urgent matters to deal with, it will respond to these activities or games by re-arranging the way it works in order to be able to better take advantage of the experience. The process thus triggered takes 3-5 hours to complete, generally.

During this 3-5 hours period, give your loved one as much down time as you can manage. Any activity that anyone does with him/her with an agenda will in effect require his/her brain to switch its attention to what you would like him/her to do instead of relaxing and repairing itself.

You already know that the brain, and the rest of the body, does some maintenance work during sleep. It's the same here.

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