Using personal stories from the heart of this neuroplasticity revolution, Dr. We learn how people of average intelligence can, with brain exercises, improve their cognition and perception in order to become savant calculators, develop muscle strength, or learn to play a musical instrument, simply by imagining doing so. Scientists have developed machines that can follow these physical changes in order to read people’s thoughts, allowing the paralyzed to control computers and electronics just by thinking. We learn that our thoughts can switch our genes on and off, altering our brain anatomy. Big Idea 2: Stimulating activities can change the structure of the brain. Doidge takes us into terrain that might seem fantastic. Overview Big Idea 1: The brain changes itself through processes like unmasking. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, a woman labeled retarded who cured her deficits with brain exercises and now cures those of others, blind people learning to see, learning disorders cured, IQs raised, aging brains rejuvenated, painful phantom limbs erased, stroke patients recovering their faculties, children with cerebral palsy learning to move more gracefully, entrenched depression and anxiety disappearing, and lifelong character traits altered. The result is this book, a riveting collection of case histories detailing the astonishing progress of people whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless. Norman Doidge, MD, a psychiatrist and researcher, set out to investigate neuroplasticity and met both the brilliant scientists championing it and the people whose lives they’ve transformed. Doidge has written an immensely moving, inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human. Neuroplasticity not only gives hope to those with mental limitations, or what was thought to be incurable brain damage, but expands our understanding of the healthy brain and the resilience of human nature. Using these marvelous stories to probe mysteries of the body, emotion, love, sex, culture, and education, Dr. The brain is not, as was thought, like a machine, or “hardwired” like a computer. Listen to the amazing case studies of men and women of all ages whose brains have changed and adapted to overcome physical and mental disabilities, including. Arguably the most important breakthrough in neuroscience since scientists first sketched out the brain’s basic anatomy, this revolutionary discovery, called neuroplasticity, promises to overthrow the centuries-old notion that the brain is fixed and unchanging. The story of a paralysed man who learnt to. It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age. The story of Michelle Mack is inspiring she was born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole.
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