It satisfies in equal measure the mind and heart.

Oliver Sacks, MD Lucid and absolutely fascinating. Doidges book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. The New York Times Brilliant.Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science.The implications are monumental. Mind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff.with implications for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history. Review Quotes The power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Doidge has written an immensely moving, inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential. Using these marvelous stories to probe mysteries of the body, emotion, love, sex, culture, and education, Dr. 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. Psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity, its healing powers, and the people whose lives theyve transformed-people whose mental limitations, brain damage or brain trauma were seen as unalterable. Doidges book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.-Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidges inspiring guide to the new brain science explains all of this and more An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable, and proving that it is, in fact, possible to change your brain.

The brain that trains itself