03231nam a2200385u 4500 71189897 OCoLC 20190501183646.0 ta 160219s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng 2006049224 067003830X 9780670038305 9780143113102 (pbk.) QP363.3 .D65 2007 612.8 22 Doidge, Norman. The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science / Norman Doidge. New York : Viking, 2007. xvi, 427 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-408) and index. A woman perpetually falling : rescued by the man who discovered the plasticity of our senses -- Building herself a better brain : a woman labeled "retarded" discovers how to heal herself -- Redesigning the brain : a scientist changes brains to sharpen perception and memory, increase speed of thought, and heal learning problems -- Acquiring tastes and loves : what neuroplasticity teaches about sexual attraction and love -- Midnight resurrections : stroke victims learn to move and speak again -- Brain lock unlocked : using plasticity to stop worries, obsessions, compulsions, and bad habits -- Pain : the dark side of plasticity -- Imagination : how thinking makes it so -- Turning our ghosts into ancestors : psychoanalysis as a neuroplastic therapy -- Rejuvenation : the discovery of the neuronal stem cell and lessons for preserving our brains -- More than the sum of her parts : a woman shows us how radically plastic the brain can be -- The culturally modified brain -- Plasticity and the idea of progress. 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. Neuroplasticity. Neural circuitry. Neural networks (Neurobiology) Brain damage Patients Rehabilitation. Adaptation (Physiology) Neurophysiology. Neurobiology. Neuronal Plasticity Case Reports. Brain Damage, Chronic rehabilitation Case Reports. Mental Disorders rehabilitation Case Reports. 12 8380 8380 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2016-10-26 0 612.82 DOID 35856 2016-10-26 18.00 2016-10-26 BOOK