Book description
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.
Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, working at the
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and
the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry.
