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Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 1 – Philosophical Introduction
eral processes of perceptual and motor skill learning, and more specifically resembles
human speech learning. Song is sub served by circuitry that is specialized
for vocal learning and production, but that has strong similarities to mammalian
brain pathways (…) there are mechanistic parallels between birdsong and
aspects of speech and social communion. (…) Songbirds therefore represent an
almost unique animal model: song learning has remarkable parallels to human
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speech learning.
The speech disorders like auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia can be a mutation
of FOXP2 as a genetic vulnerability, predisposed for auditory hallucinations.
“Interestingly polymorphisms in FOXP2 have recently been associated with auditory
hallucinations (…) If hallucinations are misidentified perceptions originating
in the speech perception area of the left temporal lobe, then hallucinating patients
should have problems identifying a simultaneously presented external speech
sound, especially when the sound is presented and lateralized to the left hemisphere”.
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Also the epigenetic research has formed an important part of the FOXP2 research.
The question remains: “Do we have here an irreversible or a reversible distortion
as a selection in the human lineage?” 78
75 Michael S. Brainard a.o. “Translating Songbirds as a model for basic and applied medical research. Conclusion: “No
single animal model is likely to recapitulate all the features of complex neurological and psychiatric diseases, but we argue
here that songbirds, with their easily quantifiable learned behaviur and dedicated circuit, are a iniquely usefull addition to
more traditional model systems. (…) It is our hope that enhanced dialogue between songbird and human researchers, with
attention to both the similarities and differences between systems, can provide new thrapeutic insights”.
76 Ikuku Teramitsu, a.o. “Parallel FOXP1 and FOXP2 Expression in Songbird and Human Brain Predicts Functional
Interaction”, The Journal of Neuroscience, 2004
77 Kenneth Hugdahl a.o. “Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: the role of cognitive, brain structural and genetic
disturbances in the left temporal lobe”, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2008.
78 Amporo Tolosa, a.o. “FOXP2 gene and language impairmaent in schizophrenia: association and epigenetic studies”,
BioMed Central, 2010.