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The Brain That Changes Itself
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Author: Norman Doidge

This is the book everyone is talking about!

An astonishing new scientific discovery is that the adult human brain is able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. This discovery, called neuro-plasticity, is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the brain is fixed and unchanging. The result is that many people with seeming mental defects are achieving dramatically improved brain function. Centred around fascinating cases, and all in plain language. It’s a book that needs time – 423 pages, complete with index.

Psychiatrist and researcher, Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around the United States to meet the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed.

We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole; a woman labelled ‘retarded’ who cured her deficits with brain exercises and now cures the brain problems of others; blind people who learn to see; learning disorders cured; IQs raised; ageing brains rejuvenated; stroke patients recovering their faculties; children with cerebral palsy learning to move more gracefully; entrenched depression and anxiety disappearing; and lifelong character traits changed.

Other discoveries are even more fantastic. We learn that our thoughts can switch our genes on and off, altering our brain anatomy. We learn how people of average intelligence can improve their cognition and perception, develop muscle strength, or learn to play a musical instrument – simply by imagining doing so.

The messages revealed to us have the potential to permanently alter our understanding of the brain and human nature.

The Brain That Changes Itself is rated a bestseller by the New York Times, which wrote, “Mind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff with implications for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history.”

Norman Doidge, MD, is a research psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center in New York and the University of Toronto. He is also an award-winning writer and has presented his scientific research at the White House.

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