Well, presumably because whatever cognitive structures it takes in your brain to underwrite the ability to P-function, those cognitive structures have been broken, so they no longer work.

大概是因为,无论你大脑中的什么认知结构,使得人格功能性成为可能，这种认知结构都被破坏了，它们不再继续工作。

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And there's also,of course,in each one of our cases, there's these higher mental cognitive functions that I've been calling the person functioning, there's the B-functions and there's the P-functions.

当然对我们来说，还有更高级的精神上的认知功能,我称之为人格功能，所以就有生理功能和人格功能。

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Those doctors would still not be able to improve school performance of the kids with learning disabilities and they would still not be able to prevent cognitive impairment and loss of memory in older adults because at this point we don't really understand enough about learning To know which neurons and synapses within a circuit would need to be tinkered with.

他恐怕还是改变不了有学习障碍的孩子们的表现,阻挡不了老年人的认知功能损害和记忆力的衰退,因为我们对这一学科的确知之甚少,不知道知道回路中的到底是哪些神经元和神经突触需要修复。

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