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Title	:	The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Author	:	Norman Doidge
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 427 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2007 by Viking (first published March 15th 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Science. Psychology. Biology. Neuroscience. Brain. Health. Medical

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Hardcover | Pages: 427 pages

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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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Original Title:	The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
ISBN:	067003830X (ISBN13: 9780670038305)
Edition Language:	English

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We can alter the structure of our brains, at will, by the way we behave and think. This radical truth entered mainstream neuroscience about 30 years ago, finally shattering the earlier belief in fixed regions of the brain.Neurons that fire together wire together. If repeated, the connections get stronger. Unused connections wither away use it or lose it. Therein lies what Doidge calls the Plastic Paradox. With commitment, we can expand our brains by learning new skills, at any age, and open up

Content note: discusses some examples you may interpret as animal cruelty.I have pretty mixed feelings about this book. My main response, I guess, is "read with caution". There are some parts which are reasonable, well-founded, and which don't seem to be driven by any bias. Talking about the ways to help people recover from strokes would fall under this category; I was actually a bit surprised that all of the information about brain maps, and the brain's "use it or lose it" approach to neuronal

A fascinating book about the malleability of the brain. The author presents a variety of case studies that show that an individual's mind can fix what is wrong with the brain. This is down to the idea that the brain has a plasticity with the capability to heal and alter at any time during a person's life. Examples are patients with phantom limb pain, OCD sufferers, blindness, pain management etc. who all benefited from a neuroplastic therapeutic approach to improve their condition. It's an

So far this book has taught me two things. 1. That I am far more affected than I expected to be by the phrase "sew a kitten's eyelid closed for three weeks..after which the kitten remained permanently blind in one eye." and2. Using the word "till" instead of "until" is acceptable in scholarly writing. For the rest of the information, stay tuned. Okay, so I finished the book. It was a fulfilling emotional rollercoaster for the chronically impressionable and acutely anxious. Every chapter

Neuroplasticity as a double-edged sword can cause flexibility or rigidity to the brain tissues. Neurons in the brain connect themselves as you use them. Each brain function is competing for limited resources and there is limited mapping space. So, what you have worked on the most gets developed. It's similar to physical exercise, the more you practice it in a certain way, the more you will get flexible in certain body parts resulting in more automaticity and the reduction of resources necessary

Serious scientific findings on plasticity of the brain are often presented by Doidge with a light hand, adding stories, biographies and very personal experiences to transform this important book into compulsory read for anyone interested in sneak-peaking at how the mind works.

It seems like that this book has become a classic and one can read it over and over again for a dose of encouragement about the brain and its plasticity and that there is nothing impossible with God. Everything can change for the best and all the long-held theories have been largely proven wrong and it is never too late for the brain to do many wonderful things, despite anything in the big, wide world!