Cerebral Palsy maybe/maybe not

Cerebral Palsy is what, then?

In the womb, during or after being born, something happened that is not still ongoing. The brain was injured and depending on what areas or functions – we might see something amiss – or not. Babies don’t do much. A missing arithmetic skill won’t get noticed. Brain cells don’t all do things that we can see. Much of the brain cell mass is SUPPORTIVE. The supportive cells mechanically help position and support neurons, true. But, they even more importantly make many of the substances that neurons need to be and act as neurons and to sustain their own structure. Neuron damage may be a failure of neurons – over time – from the missing supportive cells. A very obvious example is, when to big applause, a kid drags somebody out of a garage that has a car running. That somebody is ‘saved’. But then over a year to even two years we see odd tremors that increase in scope and amplitude until it is full blown uncontrollable movement. The carbon monoxide made oxygen unavailable by taking up all the O2 receptors in the red cell hemoglobin. The most oxygen needing cells regardless of spatial location or tracts are damaged. Those are the ones making stuff, not just synaptic-ally holding hands with other neurons.

Brains use tremendous amounts of energy. Yet, the synapses, where all that magic happens, are way too crowded with recycling loops of complexity and such that there isn’t enough room for mitochondria. So they don’t rely on mitochondria (where O2 is used to make energy and