![]() Each extraordinary story features an extraordinary doctor with their own extraordinary experience. With unassuming respect for all he observes, Doidge profiles the pioneers and practitioners of neuroplastic therapy and healing…. His second book, The Brain’s Way of Healing, focuses on how brains damaged from birth, or by illness or injury can gain or regain some or all cognitive and motor functionality through neuroplasticity…. In Doidge’s first book, The Brain That Changes Itself, he introduced the idea that the brain has plastic properties. Ramachandran M.D., Ph.D., Neurologist, Neuroscientist, and author of “The Tell-Tale Brain,” Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego The book is a treasure-trove of the author’s own deep insights and a clear bright light of optimism shines through every page.” V.S. Drawing on the last three decades of research, Doidge challenges this view, using vivid portraits of patients and their physicians. Neurology used to be considered a depressing discipline with patients often displaying fascinating but essentially untreatable symptoms and disabilities. ![]()
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