Identifying the Brain Networks involved in Free Will......

Researchers have been stimulating the different parts of the brains with people that have two different disorders.  One is called akinetic mutism, patients who lack the motivation to move or speak and the other is called alien limb syndrome, this is when patient feel that movement is generated by someone else.  Both the desire to act and the feeling of responsibility to act all have problems within different locations in the brain.  But all of the networks interconnect.  These people are being studied to find the different neural pathways so that they can be helped with brain stimulation.  This can also be connected to people that have what is called catatonia, people that seem awake but to not move and motor conversion disorder, frozen limbs or abnormal movements.

I have not been able to work with LENS with people that have this type of severe problem.  I do know that if the brain is allowed to heal it can create a new way of functioning.