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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

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Norman Doidge

  • The Brain That Changes Itself
  • The Brain That Changes Itself
    The discovery of neuroplasticity has profound implications for the education of all children and particularly for those with learning difficulties. A must read book.


2010
ISBN: 9781921372742

The discovery of neuroplasticity; that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains, even into old age; is the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years. Neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, travelled around the US to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed – people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable.

We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning disorders cured, IQs raised, aging brains rejuvenated, stroke patients learning to speak, children with cerebral palsy learning to move with more grace, depression and anxiety disorders successfully treated, and lifelong character traits changed. Using these marvellous stories to probe mysteries of the body, emotion, love, sex, culture, and education, Dr. Doidge has written an immensely moving, inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.