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After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

Norman Doidge's Popular Quotes

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

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

- Norman Doidge

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

- Norman Doidge

Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, an…

- 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.

- 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…

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Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

- Norman Doidge

...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

- Norman Doidge