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Hey everybody. This is Dr. Drew Rubin from ChiroSecure. Bringing you another webinar. This is part two of disruptive Pediatrics, hemispheric and Lateralization. So last time, we spoke about like some of their early understanding of what’s going on with hemispheric and lateralization. Today we’re gonna take it to the next level, talk about more clinical applications.
Let’s go to the slides, please, and here we go. How do we apply Hemi Ferocity? Into our practices. So I always have to give deference to Dr. Robert Malillo, who has been one of my teachers and mentors over the years regarding kids with neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral issues. This book when I first read it back in maybe 2008, 2009, that shifted everything.
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So I give Dr. Miller a lot of credit. ’cause after this book I went to. Two of his seminar series, and it really has completely blown away how I work with kiddos. I recommend this book very highly if you want to study this kinda stuff. The third edition just came out. So in that book, he talks about a radical concept back then and less radical now, but it’s a, it was a radical concept back then, which is that each brain.
Each side of the brain has its own sort of powers and if you have deficiencies in one side of the brain or the other, you’re gonna see more issues of a certain kind. Based upon what side is being deficient. So as an example right deficiency. So a kiddo with a right brain deficiency is going to show more like Asperger’s which is no longer used, but autism, A DHD, Tourette syndrome, OCD, these kind of things, that’s, those people have a bit more right brain deficiencies is the A DH and just as a blanket thing, a d, ADHD is in autism.
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Those are the big ones. The left brain deficiencies are a different sort of issue going on with them because the left brain functions differently than the right brain. So people with the left brain deficiency, you’ll see a lot of people with anorexia, eating disorders, processing disorders, dyspraxia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia which is like math issues.
’cause that’s a left brain deficiency and it makes sense if you think about it. A person, like if you looking at what the right brain is more like the creative social. Side of things, and the left brain is more of the mathematical, calculating kind of thing. So it makes sense where you’re gonna have an issue as to what side of the brain is gonna be deficient.
But the key thing and that he’s been doing research on for years now, which is why he named that book, the original book, the Disconnected Kids. The key thing is that these issues when we see issues in kids with A DHD, with autism, with learning disorders, with dyslexia, et cetera, what’s going on is there’s a functional disconnectivity.
There’s a functional disconnectivity, and this is a relatively recent paper by Dr. Milow and his son Ty, who also graduated from chiropractic school. And Dr. Leman, who’s a researcher and this if you wanna read one paper this year, if you’re not a paper reader, but you wanna read one paper, this is the paper to read.
Because what this talks about is the prefrontal functional connectivity is an autism spectrum disorder. And how it’s all, how it all connects to each other. So this is the main issue that comes outta that autism as a primary sensory perception and motor control dysfunction. The core issues related to a SD, which is autism spectrum.
And it’s repetitive stereotypical behaviors, verbal and nonverbal deficit. Especially socialization attachment deficits are primarily related to a deficit of development of the right hemisphere networks, which we talked about before, right? The right brain is being deficient in these kiddos, and that is, I’ll tell you, it’s a big difference than what a lot of people are saying because a lot of people are saying let’s say especi non kids with nonverbal autism who have a brokerage area, issues on the left hand side.
So saying, what’s a left issue? What Dr. Malillo is saying is no, it’s actually a right handed issue ’cause these deficits are brainstem related Through the retained RPOs retained primal reflexes, which alter early movement and skew sensory perceptual feedback. This bottom up interference impacts right brain development, which commences in uterine and continues over the first three years of life.
The left hemisphere networks, the underlie verbal light brokers. Motor and some behavioral emotional behaviors come online too early and inhibit the development of the same nonverbal sensory and emotional networks controversially in the right hemisphere. Then listen to this. We propose that a SD is not a principally a cognitive or intellectual deficit.
It’s core, and this is huge because if you think about so many kiddos in with autism are doing like a BA therapy. They’re saying it’s a behavioral issue. It’s a cognitive issue. It’s an intellectual issue. But what Dr. Millo is saying is the primary language deficit. We hypothesize to be a nonverbal communication deficit that commences in the right hemisphere, networks in al regions equivalent to warnes and brokers in the left.
This is a brilliant rethinking about what autism, what’s going on with a child with autism, especially I know he and I, we really take care of a lot of kiddos who are nonverbal or minimally speaking children with autism and adults with autism and. It’s not, the left side is not the biggest problem actually, what’s happening with a lot of these people with autism is they have super duper strong left sides, which is why they’re very analytical, they’re very mathematical.
You remember Rainn Ran where the, in that one amazing movie with Dustin Hopin and Tom Cruise, where he was able to count cards, very handy in blackjack. Not very ethical but very handy in blackjack. But that’s the key is they have, that’s a left brain. Dominance. But he had a, he was socially inefficient.
He could not do things socially Rainman. That’s a true story actually. It wasn’t. They dramatized it, but it was actually a true story. So what’s going on is these brokerage areas we used to think of brokerage areas. That’s, and Mercury says that’s a left hand thing. No, it’s not. There’s actually similar areas on the right hand side, but they are dealing with more of the nonverbals.
And why is that important? Because in order for the brain to speak a word, in order for the brain to understand what’s going a herd word, you need both sides of the brain. You need both sides of the brain. And in a split brain patient the images shown to the left side when there’s, when they split, the corpus close images shown to the left side are unable to be spoken.
’cause the right side of the brain does not have the same language capacities as the left side of the brain. But it’s the right. But the key is though, that the right side of the brain knew what the thing was. So images shown to the left side can be drawn because they do know what it is. They just can’t say it.
So this kind of proves what we’ve been talking about in the first episode when we talked about lateralization, that this is not a myth. This is, and this is a big thing I see a lot of people say, that’s just a myth. And there’s a thing is left and right brain. Every, the entire brain does everything.
And you need, of course, the whole brain is important. The whole brain is necessary to do everything. But the left side and the right side have different tasks. And as we showed. Last time in the first episode about brain lateralization. That, that there’s a the reason that we have this specialization is to make us so unique and special among all the other animals on this planet.
So in minimally speaking autism, a child can see and hear the words, but may not be, but may not be able to say them because in what they can see the words. They can hear the words, but they can’t say them because this is what Dr. Male will call a primary sensory perception and motor control dysfunction.
So they can see it, they can hear it, but they can’t get their motor system to be working. Another amazing paper that he wrote several years ago was taking sides asymmetries in the evolution of human brain in better understanding of autism. And what he says there is the sensory perception dysfunction causes delay in the development of body ownership and self-awareness being associated with deficits in the ability to move and control the motor planning necessary speech and language.
So in other words, if you have a sensory perception. Dysfunction. In other words, you can’t feel, you can’t move. Let’s put it really simple. You can’t feel, you can’t move. And that’s why so many of these kids, not only do they have a speech issue, a lot of these kiddos with autism who are minimally speaking, not only they have speech issues, they also have food eating issues.
They have issues with chewing certain foods, which is why they gravitate towards simple foods and and soft foods like chicken nuggets and pizza and french fries and those kind of things. And mac and cheese. So ultimately what I want to talk to you guys about is we need to take care of more of these kiddos because if we can see more of these kiddos with these brain dysfunctions and help what we say, reconnect these disconnections, then we can make some amazing changes.
I speak for the ICPA, I’m doing a matter of fact a few weeks on the 26th. I’m doing a of April. I’m doing. Pediatric midline defect thing, talking about tongue ties and stuff like that. And we’re also doing another one in December, in case you missed that one. And every couple of months I’m somewhere I am in I’ll be in Daytona, I’ll be in Denver, I’ll be in Madison.
I’m gonna be all, I’m all over the place. I’ll be at Life University. So I would love to see you guys really want to understand how to take care of these kiddos. I’m here for you. We have over 600 episodes on my Car Cast podcast. I would love to hear your thoughts about this. Please check it out.
It’s on every major podcast thing you can do. iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, SoundCloud. And ultimately our job is to protect more kiddos. And if we can adjust more kiddos. That’s right. Protect our future and adjust more kiddos, I wanna say thank you so much to ChiroSecure for having me.
I love that ChiroSecure is always there for us. Just as an example the other day I got this weird fax from a lawyer asking for notes from a patient I haven’t seen in 10 years. And the patients were suing some other people and I didn’t know what to, I called kaki and they led me through this.
So I really appreciate their help. It was one phone call away and they were there for us. I really appreciate that. Thank you so much guys, and I’ll see you next time on Disruptive Pediatrics.
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