The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of, but in the way those parts unceasingly re-weave themselves in an electric, living fabric. This book is not simply about what the brain is, but what it does. Doidge has written an immensely moving, inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential. The greatest technology we have ever discovered on this planet is the three-pound organ carried around in the vault of the skull. Using these marvelous stories to probe mysteries of the body, emotion, love, sex, culture, and education, Dr. 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. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, MD, traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed - people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. In a refreshing counterpoint to the biology-is-destiny drumbeat, Eagleman embarks on a lively tour of how we can transform our brains by exercising our own agency. An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. 'In Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, Eagleman tackles this topic with fresh élan and rigour.
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