![]() ![]() Doidge’s first book, The Brain That Changes Itself, published seven years ago, described how the principle of such healing was becoming established fact in the laboratory through a greater understanding of ways in which circuits of neurons functioned and were created by thought. Norman Doidge is a distinguished scientist, a medical doctor, and a psychiatrist on the faculty of both the University of Toronto and of Columbia University in New York. Not only that, but much of the healing–for conditions that range from Parkinson’s disease, to autism, to stroke, to traumatic head injury–can be stimulated by conscious habits of thought and action, by teaching the brain to essentially “rewire itself.” Neuroplasticity has developed from a growing understanding that the human brain is in fact capable of much more significant self-repair and healing. ![]() For centuries the human brain was thought to be a fairly fixed and unregenerative organ that, if injured or diseased, is subject to only very limited recovery. The Brain’s Way of Healing is a new book by Norman Doidge that focuses on the implications of a new are of neuroscience called neuroplasticity.
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