An edition of Train your mind, change your brain (2008)

Train your mind, change your brain

how a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves

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An edition of Train your mind, change your brain (2008)

Train your mind, change your brain

how a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves

Trade pbk. ed.
  • 12 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

A study of the new science of neuroplasticity explains how the brain can be physically altered to regain the use of limbs disabled by a stroke, recover from depression, reverse age-related changes, and acquire new skills even in old age.

Publish Date
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
283

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Table of Contents

Can we change? Challenging the dogma of the hardwired brain
Th enchanted loom; The discovery of neuroplasticity
New neurons for old brains; Neurogenesis
A child shall lead them; The neuroplasticity of young brains
Footprints on the brain; Sensory experience reshapes adult brains
Mind over matter; Mental activity changes the brain
Nature through nurture; Turning on genes in the brain
Blaming Mom? Rewired for compassion
Transforming the emotional mind; Challenging the happiness "Set point"
Now what?

Edition Notes

"Foreword by the Dalai Lama, preface by Daniel Goleman"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-275) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
612.82
Library of Congress
QP363.5 .B44 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 283 p. ;
Number of pages
283

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24770298M
ISBN 10
0345479890
ISBN 13
9780345479891
LCCN
2006042952
OCLC/WorldCat
182721424

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15861609W

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