Norman Doidge, MD, a psychoanalyst and researcher at Columbia University and psychiatrist at the University of Toronto, discusses in his novel, “The Brain that Changes Itself” (ISBN-10: 0143113100, Penguin Books reprint edition December 2007) the brain’s ability to improve or “update” from a previous level of functioning is no exception to the brain/computer comparison. On many occasions, the brain has been compared to a computer in its vast functionality. An hour or so later, my computer had improved its programs to run faster, cleaned up its layout to appear more modern, and deleted several useless programs.
I clicked “okay” and marveled at the computer’s capacity to improve itself. Using personal stories from the heart of this neuroplasticity revolution, Dr Doidge has written an immensely moving, inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.When I turned on my computer the other day, a notification greeted me to update my software. We learn how people of average intelligence can, with brain exercises, improve their cognition and perception, develop muscle strength, or learn to play a musical instrument - simply by imagining doing so. We learn that our thoughts can switch our genes on and off, altering our brain anatomy. 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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