The brain that changes7/2/2023 ![]() Soon her whole body is moving chaotically back and forth, and she looks like a person walking a tightrope in a frantic seesaw moment before losing balance–except that both her feet are firmly planted on the ground, wide apart. First her head wobbles and tilts to one side, and her arms reach out to try to stabilize her stance. When she stands up without support, she looks, within moments, as if she were standing on a precipice, about to plummet. And because she feels like she’s falling, she falls. ![]() In this excerpt, he writes about the breakthrough of a woman who, for five years, couldn’t stop falling down.Ī NEW SCIENCE HELPS PEOPLE GAIN (OR REGAIN) IMPORTANT SKILLSĬheryl Schiltz feels like she’s perpetually falling. In The Brain That Changes Itself, the doctor puts the lie to centuries-old notions that the brain is unchangeable. ![]() Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, MD, traveled the country to meet scientists championing a new field called neuroplasticity, and the patients it’s helped, including people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. ![]()
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