The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.
Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity. - Norman Doidge
Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
- Norman Doidge
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the… - Norman Doidge
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the…
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. - Norman Doidge
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. - Norman Doidge
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.
Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, an… - Norman Doidge
Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, an…
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain. - Norman Doidge
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.
Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impati… - Norman Doidge
Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impati…
Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity. - Norman Doidge
Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.
...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks. - Norman Doidge
...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.
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