![]() ![]() The author explains how the common wisdom before only until recently was that the brain would not change after childhood unless during our senior years when it started to decline. Norman Doidge says that The Brain That Changes Itself is a collection of stories of scientists, doctors and patients who discovered and proved that the brain does change itself, without the need of surgery or medication. However, he does a great job not only in reviewing all the science around the brain’s plasticity, but also in taking us through the stories of those who proved that plasticity with their own lives. ![]() Technically, not a neuroscientist or neurobiologist, then. Habits shape us as much as genes do -and more than choices-Ībout The Author: Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.The critical period of growth in childhood can shape our lives. ![]()
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