This inspiring book will leave you with a sense of wonder at the capabilities of the mind, and the self-healing power that lies within all of us. He introduces incredible case histories - blind people helped to see, IQs raised and memories sharpened - and tells the stories of the maverick scientists who are overturning centuries of assumptions about the brain. Arguably the most important breakthrough in neuroscience since scientists first sketched out the brain’s basic anatomy, this revolutionary discovery, called neuroplasticity, promises to overthrow the centuries. Here bestselling author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge reveals the secrets of the cutting-edge science of 'neuroplasticity'. It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age. All these people had their lives transformed by the remarkable discovery that our brains can repair themselves through the power of positive thinking. In his first book, The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge introduced readers to the most important change in our understanding of the brain since the beginning of modern science: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experiencethe phenomenon of neuroplasticity. without question one of the most important books about the brain you will ever read yet it is beautifully written, immensely approachable, and full of humanity' Iain McGilchrist MA, author of The Master and His Emissary Meet the ninety-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the woman with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole. In other words, action video games develop our spatial selective attention, an ability that can be positive in many daily activities. OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain' Oliver Sacks 'Utterly wonderful. The changes involve increases both in visual attention and in the ability to ignore irrelevant information that distracts us.

The brain that changes