The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science /: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science. (2007)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science /: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science. (2007)
- Main Title:
- The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science
- Further Information:
- Note: Norman Doidge.
- Other Names:
- Doidge, Norman
- Contents:
- A woman perpetually falling : rescued by the man who discovered the plasticity of our senses -- Building herself a better brain : a woman labeled "retarded" discovers how to heal herself -- Redesigning the brain : a scientist changes brains to sharpen perception and memory, increase speed of thought, and heal learning problems -- Acquiring tastes and loves : what neuroplasticity teaches about sexual attraction and love -- Midnight resurrections : stroke victims learn to move and speak again -- Brain lock unlocked : using plasticity to stop worries, obsessions, compulsions, and bad habits -- Pain : the dark side of plasticity -- Imagination : how thinking makes it so -- Turning our ghosts into ancestors : psychoanalysis as a neuroplastic therapy -- Rejuvenation : the discovery of the neuronal stem cell and lessons for preserving our brains -- More than the sum of her parts : a woman shows us how radically plastic the brain can be -- The culturally modified brain -- Plasticity and the idea of progress.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Viking
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 427 pages)
- Subjects:
- 612.8
MEDICAL / Neuroscience
Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
Neuroplasticity
Brain
Brain -- Diseases -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Treatment
Neurosciences
Neuroplasticity
Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
Neuronal Plasticity
Brain Damage, Chronic -- rehabilitation
Mental Disorders -- rehabilitation
Case Reports
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781429528771
9781429528801
9781921753091
1921753099
9780141923680
0141923687 - Related ISBNs:
- 142952877X
142952880X - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-408) and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.195073
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