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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 | : | Special 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 |
Norman Doidge
Hardcover | Pages: 427 pages Rating: 4.2 | 28845 Users | 2065 Reviews
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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.Present Books Toward The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
| 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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Ratings: 4.2 From 28845 Users | 2065 ReviewsCritique About Books The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
The good book explains the discovery of neuroplasticity in recent years. The brain can change itself a lot more than we used to think. It is more plastic and can shift function to other areas when damaged and learn new skills and permanently change its wiring. I thought the section on sexual imprinting was interesting. Early sexual experiences can show up in lifelong preferences in males in terms of what they are influenced to find desirable in a mate. Lots of other tidbits that show thatA 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
The book is about neuroplasticity: the idea that our thoughts and experiences can rewire and change the structure of our brains. This may sound like a revolutionary idea in an age when too many people talk about a brain hardwired by our genes, and the author certainly dramatizes this point and wants to portray his book as representing a novel and ground-breaking idea, but somehow what the book says didnt come across to me as revolutionary as it claims. Maybe because Ive already read Ramachandran
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
This book is about the plasticity of the brain. That is versus "Localizationism" which holds that the brain is static and each part performs only one function. Modern science, thru the use of MRI, Catscan and observed recoveries of function loss have disproved the long-held notion of localizationism. The book is really a set of stories about people who have regained or developed senses they either lost or never had. The stories are quite inspiring. For example, one man had a stroke and lost the
This book was a very interesting read. I found it to be a pretty "light" read, in that the science mumbo-jumbo had been effectively translated into English. But that doesn't mean Doidge's claims are unsupported--throughout the text, and in extensive notes, he cites published research results, giving the book plenty of credibility.The Brain that Changes Itself discusses the (apparently controversial) subject of neuroplasticity. Although many of its claims seem perfectly intuitive (through mental
This book made me reexamine what I believed about human behavior, in particular our ability to change. The author refers to neuroscience and brain studies to argue that every time we engage in a behavior, we create or reinforce pathways in our brain. Intuitively we know that the more you practice a skill, the better you get at it. The better you get at something, the less effort it takes. Brain scans demonstrate this process. The concept is known as brain plasticity, which means the brain's
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