The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Doidge M.D., Norman

ISBN 10: 0143113100 / ISBN 13: 9780143113102

Published by Penguin Life, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
• Publisher: Penguin Life
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143113100
• ISBN 13: 9780143113102
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

An astonishing new science called "neuroplasticity" is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed. From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, The Brain That Changes Itself will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.

About the Author

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Brain's Way of Healing, which was the winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Book Award in Science & Cosmology. He was on the Research Faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research at Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry in New York City, and on the faculty of the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry for thirty years. He lives in Toronto.