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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 612.8 EAN: 9780143113102 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0143113100 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: December 18, 2007 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives theyve transformed. From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, The Brain That Changes Itself will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Every time we consciously focus our attention .....I was amazed about how interesting I found this book about neuroplasticity. It grabbed my interested right away with a desciption of the work by Paul Bach-y-Rita a great pioneer in the field of the neuroplasticity. He has demonstrated many times the process of SENSORY SUBSTITUTION: when one of our senses is damaged, another one can sometimes take it over for it. Bach-y-Rita claims that any part of the cortex should be able to process whatever electrical signals were sent to it and that our brain ... Read More Rating: - deserves the rave reviewsas someone who has done signicant repairs to my own brain functioning i can relate to several of the stories in this book. Rating: - The Resurrection of Sigmund FreudThe history of Sigmund Freud's approach to the mechanisms of the mind has exhibited some tumultuous changes over the past century. Norman Doidge reminds us that Freud developed a thesis about the mind's plasticity over time. Freud's psychotherapy - irrespective of some questionable methods - was designed to allow the mind to search within itself and change outward behaviour by identifying memories hidden or repressed. However, after Freud, researchers using diagnoses of stroke or brain-injury ... Read More Rating: - The Brain That Changes Itself reviewI can't praise this book enough! I highly recommend it. I'm just sorry all of this research got started so late. Rating: - The Brain that Changes Itself...This is an excellent book that gives you hope, not only through real experiences but through the new brain research developments. It is easy to understand and read. At first I thought it was just going to be about case studies but the author gives you research based information in laymen's terms so it's easy to follow and understand. It gives you hope that today brain injury is not the end of the world. Love this book. 
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