The brain's way of healing : remarkable discoveries and recoveries from the frontiers of neuroplasticity
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"In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience-what we call neuroplasticity. His revolutionary... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Physician hurt, then heal thyself : Michael Moskowitz discovers that chronic pain can be unlearned
- A man walks off his Parkinsonian symptoms : how exercise helps fend off degenerative disorders and can defer dementia
- The stages of neuroplastic healing : how and why it works
- Rewiring a brain with light : using light to reawaken dormant neural circuits
- Moshe Feldenkrais, physicist, black belt, and healer : healing serious brain problems through mental awareness of movement
- A blind man learns to see : using Feldenkrais, Buddhist, and other neuroplastic methods
- A device that resets the brain : stimulating neuromodulation to reverse symptoms. A cane against the wall ; Three resets: Parkinson's, stroke, multiple sclerosis ; The cracked potters ; How the brain balances itself
- with a little help
- A bridge of sound : the special connection between music and the brain. A dyslexic boy reverses his misfortune ; A mother's voice ; Rebuilding the brain from the bottom up: autism, attention deficits, and sensory processing disorder ; Solving the mystery at the abbey : how music: raises our spirits and energy.