The Brain That Changes Itself
| author: Norman Doidge | shelved under: Health/Medicine |
| date: 2010 | publisher: Scribe |
| content type: book | |
| description: A book on neuroplasticity by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D. It features studies of several patients suffering from neurological disorders and details how the brain adapts to compensate for their disabilities. Interviews with the patients and doctors make up a large portion of the contents. Doidge uses examples of previous work carried out by neuroscientists such as Paul Broca and Paul Bach-y-Rita to show that the brain is adaptive, and thus plastic. | |
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