Let us, for a moment, visualize the nervous system by itself (apart from the body) as a bio-computer with 30 billion reception-evaluation-output centers (neurons) wired-up together and mediated by hierarchical centers. The various sense organs receive billions of signals a minute. The output fibres fire billions of signals per minute. Imprints lay down the basic connections which pattern and guide neural activity.

There is, for example, the First Circuit emergency system which, when the "danger" cues are received and evaluated, commands millions of survival actions. Early "danger" imprints and genetic programs cue this powerful, basic system which effects, when mobilized, every organ in the body. Fear! Once the First Circuit has imprinted a fear stimulus, the only way this chemico-electric synaptic pattern can be changed is to suspend or replace the wiring. The intransigence of human "phobia," and "security-blankets" is caused by imprints.

The only way to rewire neural patterns is to interfere with the neurotransmitter sequence at the synapse, thus retracting the old imprint and allowing for a new imprinting. Shock, illness, trauma, drugs, child delivery, stimulus deprivation and electrical charge are the only ways to change the chemistry of the synapse. When action inside the body becomes overwhelmingly intense so as to alter synapse chemistry, the imprint life-lines to the external environment are retracted. The chance to re-imprint is offered.

When the concept of neural imprinting is understood, techniques for psychological treatment will be changed. The doctor will teach the patient the principles of re-imprinting and the patient will select the new reality SHe wishes to create. Democracy and collaboration are necessary in neurologic treatment. The doctor cannot prescribe or control the treatment, because the result is a new reality for the patient.

Medical practice will also be altered. Infection or malfunction of an organ of the body can produce chemical changes which require recircuiting the neural wiring. When the somatic infection is cured the emergency "sick" wiring may remain in operation preventing the restoration of normal function. Conversely, infection or malfunction may require curative changes which are blocked by the normal "wiring." This view of the nervous system as a programmed bio-electrical network may help explain the "mysteries" of acupuncture. The needles have little effect on the fleshly system, but, particularly when energized with mild electric charges, may affect the synaptic programs which regulate the function of the organ. In the near future we may see Neurologic replace psychology and Neurosomatic-medicine replace the vague concept of psychosomatic medicine.