The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science / Norman Doidge.

  • Doidge, Norman.
Date:
2007
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Publication/Creation

New York : Viking, 2007.

Physical description

xvi, 427 pages ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-408) and index.

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 067003830X
  • 9780670038305