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
• 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.
• Access Rights: 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.