I know if you read Jill Bolte-Taylors' book or saw her on video, she highly recommended not having much sensory stimulation at all because it caused her to shut down. To each his or her own,
http://eep.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/3/dvw013.abstract
Abstract
Prenatal
stress (PS) has complex neurological, behavioural and physiological
consequences for the developing offspring. The phenotype linked to PS
usually lasts into adulthood and may even propagate to subsequent
generations. The often uncontrollable exposure to maternal stress and
the lasting consequences emphasize the urgent need for treatment
strategies that effectively reverse stress programming. Exposure to
complex beneficial experiences, such as environmental enrichment (EE),
is one of the most powerful therapies to promote neuroplasticity and
behavioural performance at any time in life. A small number of studies
have previously used EE to postnatally treat consequences of PS in the
attempt to reverse deficits that were primarily induced in utero.
This review discusses the available data on postnatal EE exposure in
prenatally stressed individuals. The goal is to determine if EE is a
suitable treatment option that reverses adverse consequences of stress
programming and enhances stress resiliency. Moreover, this review
discusses data with respect to relevant hypotheses including the
cumulative stress and the mismatch hypotheses. The articles included in
this review emphasize that EE reverses most behavioural, physiological
and neural deficits associated with PS. Differing responses may be
dependent on the timing and variability of stress and EE, exercise, and
potentially vulnerable and resilient phenotypes of PS. Results from this
study suggest that enrichment may provide an effective therapy for
clinical populations suffering from the effects of PS or early life
trauma.
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