The machine metaphor led to the belief that the brain was comparable to a computer with “hardware” and as a machine wears out: you use it and lose it.ĭoidge heralds the neuroplasticians or scientists who demonstrate the brain is plastic and refute the doctrine of the unchanging brain. If a location was damaged-by a stroke, injury or disease it could not be fixed because machines cannot repair themselves or grow new parts. This book documents studies that indicate the brain was perceived as a glorious machine, with parts that performed a single mental function, in a single location in the brain. In the first ground breaking work “The Brain That Changes Itself,” Norman Doidge introduces readers to neuroplasticity-that is the brain’s ability to change its structure and function in response to new activity and mental experience. Two of the most riveting books I have ever read on the human brain. “ The Brain That Changes Itself” and the sequel, “The Brain’s Way of Healing” By Norman Doidge.
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