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Meet the ninety year old doctor, who, with the aid of a few simple exercises, is still practising medicine. His is just one of the incredible stories brain expert Norman Doidge tells as he reveals our brain's remarkable ability to repair itself through the power of positive thought. In The Brain That Changes Itself Doidge introduces us to the fascinating stories at the cutting edge of the brain science and the emerging discipline of 'neuroplasticity' . We meet the stroke victim who unable to feed or dress himself learned to move and talk again, the woman with a rare brain condition that left her feeling as though she was perpetually falling but who through a series of exercises rewired her brain to overcome this and the maverick scientists over turning centuries of assumptions about the brain and it's capacity for renewal. Doidge shows how their incredible work is helping the blind to see, the deaf to hear and causing Nobel laureates to rethink our model of the brain. This remarkable book will leave you with a sense of wonder at the capabilities of the human brain and the power to change which lies within all of us.
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Diseases, Psychology, Science, Medical, Brain damage, Brain, Patients, Chronic Brain Damage, Neuronal Plasticity, Psychiatry, Case Reports, Wounds and injuries, Nonfiction, Mental Disorders, Rehabilitation, Neuroplasticity, Treatment, Brain damage, patients, Neuronal plasticity, Case reports, Chronic Brain damage, Mental disorders, Mental disorders--rehabilitation, Brain damage, chronic--rehabilitation, Brain damage--patients--rehabilitation, Qp363.3 .d65 2007, 2007 e-847, Wl 102 d657b 2007, 612.8Showing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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The Brain That Changes Itself
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books)
March 15, 2007, Viking Adult
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
December 18, 2007, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Brain that changes itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science
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An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country 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 marvelous 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.
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