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06-25-2008, 03:53 PM | #1 | |||
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In Remembrance
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The Brain That Changes Itself
The brain can change itself. It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age. 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 brain is not, as was thought, like a machine, or “hardwired” like a computer. 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. Norman Doidge, M.D., 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. http://www.normandoidge.com/about_the_book/
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06-25-2008, 07:39 PM | #2 | |||
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This book is definitely worth the read. I was lucky enough to have a friend lend it to me. I promise you won't be bored.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | lou_lou (06-25-2008) |
06-25-2008, 08:41 PM | #3 | |||
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I bought it and highly recommend you order it from your library. It changed the way I thought and gave me hope.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | lou_lou (06-25-2008) |
06-25-2008, 10:09 PM | #4 | |||
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http://www.normandoidge.com/excerpt.pdf
a bit of the excerpt Neuro is for “neuron,” the nerve cells in our brains and nervous systems. Plastic is for “changeable, malleable, modifiable.” At first many of the scientists didn’t dare use the word “neuroplasticity” in their publications, and their peers belittled them for promoting a fanciful notion. Yet they persisted, slowly overturning the doctrine of the unchanging brain. They showed that children are not always stuck with the mental abilities they are born with; that the damaged brain can often reorganize itself so that when one part fails, another can often substitute; that if brain cells die, they can at times be replaced; that many “circuits” and even basic reflexes that we think are hardwired are not. One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus shaping our brain anatomy and our behavior—surely one of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century.
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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | rosebud (06-27-2008) |
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