The Brain's Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries

ISBN-13: 9780141980805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 448 str.

Norman Doidge

Opis

Explores the advances in the discovery of neuroplasticity, showing that the brain has its own unique way of healing. This book discusses a series of recoveries: patients told they would never improve have years of chronic pain alleviated or damage from debilitating strokes undone, and symptoms of multiple sclerosis, and more.

Recenzje

Exhilarating science... In an era of ever-increasing medicalisation of the human mind, and the medication of it, the appeal of neuroplasticity outlined by Doidge is addictive. It is inspiring, page-turning stuff V.S. Ramachandran, neurologist and neuroscientist, author of 'The Tell-Tale Brain', Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition UCSD Sunday Times

O autorze

Norman Doidge, MD, is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and New York Times bestselling author. 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 is four time recipient of Canada's National Magazine Gold Award. He is a native of Toronto.