The Brain's Way of Healing

Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

By: Norman Doidge M.D.

Narrated by: George Newbern

The New York Times best-selling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now with a new afterword.

Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in Science & Cosmology

In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in 400 years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience - what we call neuroplasticity.

His revolutionary new book shows, for the first time, how the amazing process of neuroplastic healing really works. It describes natural, noninvasive avenues into the brain provided by the forms of energy around us - light, sound, vibration, movement - which pass through our senses and our bodies to awaken the brain's own healing capacities without producing unpleasant side effects. Doidge explores cases where patients alleviated years of chronic pain or recovered from debilitating strokes that had plateaued; children on the autistic spectrum or with learning disorders normalizing; symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and cerebral palsy radically improved; and other near-miracle recoveries. And we learn how to vastly reduce the risk of dementia with simple approaches anyone can use.

For centuries it was believed that the brain's complexity prevented recovery from damage or illness. The Brain's Way of Healing shows that this very sophistication is the source of a unique kind of healing. As he did so lucidly in The Brain That Changes Itself, Doidge uses stories to present exciting, cutting-edge science with practical real-world applications and principles that everyone can apply to improve their brains' performance and health.

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©2015 Norman Doidge (P)2015 Penguin

Very enlightening!

I will now buy the hardcover book and study neuroplasticity more in depth. I believe this is the first step towards a better world for my child.

Fantastic!

An easy book to read/listen to with great information that can help so many people! I recommend this book.

incredible.

Read so well and every aspect of the book explained so clearly, it was a pleasure to listen to and the 15 hours flew by!
I will be re-listening to the book again for sure to cement all the information, wonderful knowledge and research by these incredible minds.

Absolutely amazing!

There are no words to adequately explain how this book impacted me! I have been telling everyone I know about it (not typical!). The reader does an outstanding job, perfectly paced and expressive, with the right amount of pause where the material needs a second to sink in - which is often! The content is nothing short of incredible; each chapter is more astounding than the last. This book offers new avenues of hope for many who suffer from a variety of brain ailments, from Down's to traumatic injury to Parkinson's to dementia. I am not a science person - language is my forte - so I found the medical jargon technical but the ideas fascinating, and thanks in large part to the excellent reader, understandable.

Camaussies

Excellent book. Great info. Also a great reader who makes some technical areas easier to understand.

Hope

Information we all should have. Amazing true stories of recovery to fill us all with hope and motivation.

Worth focussing on and persevering

There were times, especially when I was listening to the story of the gentleman with Parkinson's, during which I had to stop for a while, and take a break. The material in the book was fascinating, possessing theoretical and sometimes, practical application. I was interested initially because I heard an interview with Dr Doidge on the Brain Science Podcast.

Awesome 👍

learned a lot!!!! I loved the representation of the plasticity in the is real and we as people have the opportunity to heal many conditions that were thought of incurable. wow 😳

Packed with amazing information

A few of the chapters lagged on a bit but overall this book was chocked full of incredible information.

Incredible!!

Everyone needs to read this book! It gives so much hope and provides actions we can take to help heal our brains. Anything is possible!! Each chapter focuses on different resources we can use and discusses cases that were incredibly eye-opening to me. I've already noticed improvements in myself following certain aspects of this book. Thank you!!