![]() ![]() We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole a woman labelled retarded who cured her deficits with brain exercises and now cures those of others blind people who learn to see learning disorders cured IQs raised ageing brains rejuvenated stroke patients recovering their faculties children with cerebral palsy learning to move more gracefully entrenched depression and anxiety disappearing and lifelong character traits changed.ĭoidge takes us onto terrain that might seem fantastic. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around the United States to meet the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity, and the people whose lives they’ve transformed - people whose mental limitations or brain damage were previously seen as unalterable, and whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless. ![]() It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. The number one bestselling science book in Australia.Īn astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. ![]()
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