The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
(Sprache: Englisch)
An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly inalterable conditions were successfully treated or even cured through treatments that involved the thought re-alteration of brain structure.
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An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly inalterable conditions were successfully treated or even cured through treatments that involved the thought re-alteration of brain structure.
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Fascinating. Doidge s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatWhat is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidge s inspiring guide to the new brain science explains all of this and more
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable, and proving that it is, in fact, possible to change your brain. Psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity, its healing powers, and the people whose lives they ve transformed people whose mental limitations, brain damage or brain trauma were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning disorders cured, IQs raised, aging brains rejuvenated, stroke patients learning to speak, children with cerebral palsy learning to move with more grace, depression and anxiety disorders successfully treated, and lifelong character traits changed. Using these marvelous stories to probe mysteries of the body, emotion, love, sex, culture, and education, 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.
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Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher on the faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York and the University of Toronto s department of psychiatry, as well as an author, essayist, and poet. He is a four-time recipient of Canada s National Magazine Gold Award. He divides his time between Toronto and New York.
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A Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year
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Doidge s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. . . . Only a few decades ago, scientists considered the brain to be fixed or hardwired, and considered most forms of brain damage, therefore, to be incurable. Dr. Doidge, an eminent psychiatrist and researcher, was struck by how his patients own transformations belied this, and set out to explore the new science of neuroplasticity by interviewing both scientific pioneers in neuroscience and patients who have benefited from neurorehabilitation. Here he describes in fascinating personal narratives how the brain, far from being fixed, has remarkable powers of changing its own structure and compensating for even the most challenging neurological conditions.
Oliver Sacks
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In bookstores, the science aisle generally lies well away from the self-help section, with hard reality on one set of shelves and wishful thinking on the other. But Norman Doidge s fascinating synopsis of the current revolution in neuroscience straddles this gap: the age-old distinction between the brain and the mind is crumbling fast as the power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-bending, miracle-working, reality-busting stuff, with implications . . . not only for individual patients with neurologic disease but for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history.
The New York Times
Lucid and absolutely fascinating . . . engaging, educational and riveting. It satisfies, in equal measure, the mind and the heart. Doidge is able to explain current research in neuroscience with clarity and thoroughness. He presents the ordeals of the patients about whom he writes people born with parts of their brains missing, people with learning disabilities, people recovering from strokes with grace and vividness. In the best medical narratives and the works of Doidge . . . join that fraternity the narrow bridge between body and soul is traversed with courage and eloquence.
Chicago Tribune
Readers will want to read entire sections aloud and pass the book on to someone who can benefit from it. [Doidge] links scientific experimentation with personal triumph in a way that inspires awe for the brain, and for these scientists faith in its capacity.
The Washington Post
Doidge tells one spellbinding story after another as he travels the globe interviewing the scientists and their subjects who are on the cutting edge of a new age. Each story is interwoven with the latest in brain science, told in a manner that is both simple and compelling. It may be hard to imagine that a book so rich in science can also be a page-turner, but this one is hard to set down.
Jeff Zimman, Posit Science, e-newsletter
It takes a rare talent to explain science to the rest of us. Oliver Sacks is a master at this. So was the late Stephen Jay Gould. And now there is Norman Doidge. A terrific book. You don t have to be a brain surgeon to read it just a person with a curious mind. Doidge is the best possible guide. He ha
In bookstores, the science aisle generally lies well away from the self-help section, with hard reality on one set of shelves and wishful thinking on the other. But Norman Doidge s fascinating synopsis of the current revolution in neuroscience straddles this gap: the age-old distinction between the brain and the mind is crumbling fast as the power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-bending, miracle-working, reality-busting stuff, with implications . . . not only for individual patients with neurologic disease but for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history.
The New York Times
Lucid and absolutely fascinating . . . engaging, educational and riveting. It satisfies, in equal measure, the mind and the heart. Doidge is able to explain current research in neuroscience with clarity and thoroughness. He presents the ordeals of the patients about whom he writes people born with parts of their brains missing, people with learning disabilities, people recovering from strokes with grace and vividness. In the best medical narratives and the works of Doidge . . . join that fraternity the narrow bridge between body and soul is traversed with courage and eloquence.
Chicago Tribune
Readers will want to read entire sections aloud and pass the book on to someone who can benefit from it. [Doidge] links scientific experimentation with personal triumph in a way that inspires awe for the brain, and for these scientists faith in its capacity.
The Washington Post
Doidge tells one spellbinding story after another as he travels the globe interviewing the scientists and their subjects who are on the cutting edge of a new age. Each story is interwoven with the latest in brain science, told in a manner that is both simple and compelling. It may be hard to imagine that a book so rich in science can also be a page-turner, but this one is hard to set down.
Jeff Zimman, Posit Science, e-newsletter
It takes a rare talent to explain science to the rest of us. Oliver Sacks is a master at this. So was the late Stephen Jay Gould. And now there is Norman Doidge. A terrific book. You don t have to be a brain surgeon to read it just a person with a curious mind. Doidge is the best possible guide. He ha
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Autoren-Porträt von Norman, M.D. Doidge
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Norman, M.D. Doidge
- 2007, 448 Seiten, Maße: 21,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Life
- ISBN-10: 0143113100
- ISBN-13: 9780143113102
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff...with implications for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history. The New York Times
Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental.
The London Times
Fascinating. Doidge s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
Oliver Sacks, MD
Lucid and absolutely fascinating. It satisfies in equal measure the mind and heart.
The Chicago Tribune
"An utterly wonderful book without question one of the most important books about the brain you will ever read; yet it is beautifully written, immensely approachable, and full of humanity. Its message is one of hope: it is not just our brains that shape our thinking, but our thinking that, very definitely, shapes our brains."
Iain McGilchrist MA (Oxon), BM, FRCPsych, FRSA author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Two years ago, when the journal Cerebrum at the Dana Foundation in the US updated its list of great books about the brain for the general reader, it found there were already 30,000 brain-related books in English. Aided by scientific advisers and readers, it produced a new list - with The Brain That Changes Itself at No. 1.
The Melbourne Age
Doidge turns everything we thought we knew about the brain upside down.
Publisher s Weekly
Brilliant...This book is a wonderful and engaging way or re-imagining what kind of creatures we are.
Jeanette Winterson, novelist, Order of the British Empire, Guardian, Best Book of 2008
Superb. Brilliant. I devoured it.
V.S. Ramachandran, MD, PHD, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Univeristy of California, San Diego, Author of Phantoms of the Brain
Doidge... is a master ... at explaining science
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to the rest of us. Doidge is the best possible guide. You don t have to be a brain surgeon to read it, just curious about your brain. Buy this book. Your brain will thank you.
The Globe and Mail
Readers will want to read entire sections aloud and pass the book on to someone who can benefit from it. [Doidge] links scientific experimentation with personal triumph in a way that inspires awe
Washington Post
Doidge tells one spell-binding story after another as he travels the globe interviewing the scientists and their subjects who are on the cutting edge of a new age. It may be hard to imagine that a book so rich in science can also be a page-turner, but this one is hard to set down.
Jeff Zimman, Posit Science, e-newsletter
The most readable and best general treatment of this subject to date.
Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D., Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences University of California at San Francisco
A riveting, essential book These stories are most emotionally satisfying. Doidge addresses how cultural influences literally "shape" our brain. [And] .our response to the world around us is not only a social or psychological phenomenon, but often a lasting neurological process.
Montreal Gazette, Liam Durcan, MD, Neurologist & Novelist
A hymn to life.
Panorama Italy
The Brain That Changes Itself...is without question the most important book of the year, and maybe the most important book we have ever read.
Kiril Sokoloff, 13D Research Inc
This books is like discovering that the earth isn t flat.
Gretel Killeen, Sun Herald, The Books That Changed Me
A rich banquet of brain-mind plasticity, communicated in a brilliantly clear writing style.
Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D., Head, Affective Neuroscience Research, Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Northwestern University;
A masterfully guided tour through the burgeoning field of neuroplasticity research.
Discover Magazine
Norman Doidge has shown that what and how we think can change our brains. He has illuminated the foundations of psychological healing.
Charles Hanly, Ph.D.President, International Psychoanalytical Association
Astonishing. This book will inevitably draw comparisons to the work of Oliver Sacks. Doidge has a prodigious gift for rendering the highly technical highly readable. It's hard to imagine a more exciting topic--or a better introduction to it.
Kitchener Waterloo Record
Perfect for fans of Oliver Sacks
Quill & Quire
Beautifully written and brings life and clarity to a variety of neuropsychiatric problems that affect children and adults... It reads a bit like a science detective story and -you do not need a Ph.D. to benefit from the wisdom imparted here.
Barbara Milrod, M.D. Psychiatry, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York
A panoramic examination of plasticity's profound implications.
Toronto Daily Star
An eloquently written book about the boundless potential of the human brain.
The Jewish Week
Norman Doidge has written a fascinating, highly readable account of the new brain science.
John Cornwell, Literary Review, England
You really should read this book... this remarkable work will lead us to see ourselves in a new light.
Mail on Sunday, England
An 'essential primer for anyone who wants to better understand their own brains and the considerable advances in neuroscience of the past two decades.
Melbourne Age
A book that everybody should read... it is nothing short of miraculous. Get it!
Yoko Ono, Yoko Reads Book Recommendations
Fascinating Doidge has accomplished a rare feat. He has written a book that accurately conveys cutting-edge scientific discoveries while simultaneously engaging both scientific and popular audiences.
Neuro-Psychoanalysis
A remarkable book ... a highly readable exploration of a branch of science that has the potential to change all our lives.
Hobart Mercury
Why isn't this book on the top of the bestseller list of all time? The recognition that the brain in plastic and can actually change itself with exercise and understanding is a huge leap in the history or mankind, far greater than landing on the moon.
Jane S. Hall, International Psychoanalysis
Only a few decades ago, scientists considered the brain to be fixed or hardwired and considered most forms of brain damage, therefore, to be incurable. Dr. Doidge, an eminent psychiatrist and researcher, was struck by how his patients own transformations belied this and set out to explore the new science of neuroplasticity by interviewing both scientific pioneers in neuroscience, and patients who have benefited from neurorehabilitation. Here he describes in fascinating personal narratives how the brain, far from being fixed, has remarkable powers of changing its own structure and compensating for even the most challenging neurological conditions. Doidge s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
Oliver Sack, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Globe and Mail
Readers will want to read entire sections aloud and pass the book on to someone who can benefit from it. [Doidge] links scientific experimentation with personal triumph in a way that inspires awe
Washington Post
Doidge tells one spell-binding story after another as he travels the globe interviewing the scientists and their subjects who are on the cutting edge of a new age. It may be hard to imagine that a book so rich in science can also be a page-turner, but this one is hard to set down.
Jeff Zimman, Posit Science, e-newsletter
The most readable and best general treatment of this subject to date.
Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D., Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences University of California at San Francisco
A riveting, essential book These stories are most emotionally satisfying. Doidge addresses how cultural influences literally "shape" our brain. [And] .our response to the world around us is not only a social or psychological phenomenon, but often a lasting neurological process.
Montreal Gazette, Liam Durcan, MD, Neurologist & Novelist
A hymn to life.
Panorama Italy
The Brain That Changes Itself...is without question the most important book of the year, and maybe the most important book we have ever read.
Kiril Sokoloff, 13D Research Inc
This books is like discovering that the earth isn t flat.
Gretel Killeen, Sun Herald, The Books That Changed Me
A rich banquet of brain-mind plasticity, communicated in a brilliantly clear writing style.
Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D., Head, Affective Neuroscience Research, Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Northwestern University;
A masterfully guided tour through the burgeoning field of neuroplasticity research.
Discover Magazine
Norman Doidge has shown that what and how we think can change our brains. He has illuminated the foundations of psychological healing.
Charles Hanly, Ph.D.President, International Psychoanalytical Association
Astonishing. This book will inevitably draw comparisons to the work of Oliver Sacks. Doidge has a prodigious gift for rendering the highly technical highly readable. It's hard to imagine a more exciting topic--or a better introduction to it.
Kitchener Waterloo Record
Perfect for fans of Oliver Sacks
Quill & Quire
Beautifully written and brings life and clarity to a variety of neuropsychiatric problems that affect children and adults... It reads a bit like a science detective story and -you do not need a Ph.D. to benefit from the wisdom imparted here.
Barbara Milrod, M.D. Psychiatry, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York
A panoramic examination of plasticity's profound implications.
Toronto Daily Star
An eloquently written book about the boundless potential of the human brain.
The Jewish Week
Norman Doidge has written a fascinating, highly readable account of the new brain science.
John Cornwell, Literary Review, England
You really should read this book... this remarkable work will lead us to see ourselves in a new light.
Mail on Sunday, England
An 'essential primer for anyone who wants to better understand their own brains and the considerable advances in neuroscience of the past two decades.
Melbourne Age
A book that everybody should read... it is nothing short of miraculous. Get it!
Yoko Ono, Yoko Reads Book Recommendations
Fascinating Doidge has accomplished a rare feat. He has written a book that accurately conveys cutting-edge scientific discoveries while simultaneously engaging both scientific and popular audiences.
Neuro-Psychoanalysis
A remarkable book ... a highly readable exploration of a branch of science that has the potential to change all our lives.
Hobart Mercury
Why isn't this book on the top of the bestseller list of all time? The recognition that the brain in plastic and can actually change itself with exercise and understanding is a huge leap in the history or mankind, far greater than landing on the moon.
Jane S. Hall, International Psychoanalysis
Only a few decades ago, scientists considered the brain to be fixed or hardwired and considered most forms of brain damage, therefore, to be incurable. Dr. Doidge, an eminent psychiatrist and researcher, was struck by how his patients own transformations belied this and set out to explore the new science of neuroplasticity by interviewing both scientific pioneers in neuroscience, and patients who have benefited from neurorehabilitation. Here he describes in fascinating personal narratives how the brain, far from being fixed, has remarkable powers of changing its own structure and compensating for even the most challenging neurological conditions. Doidge s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
Oliver Sack, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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