MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aQP363.3$b.D65 2007
049 $aXIMM
100 1 $aDoidge, Norman.
245 14 $aThe brain that changes itself :$bstories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science /$cNorman Doidge.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2007.
300 $axvi, 427 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [323]-408) and index.
505 0 $aA 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.
650 0 $aNeuroplasticity.
650 0 $aBrain damage$xPatients$xRehabilitation.
994 $aC0$bXIM