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Train your mind, change your brain : how a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves / Sharon Begley.
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TextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 2008.Edition: Trade pbk. edDescription: xviii, 283 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 9780345479891
- 0345479890
- 612.82 22
- QP363.5 .B44 2008
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Summary: A study of the new science of neuroplasticity explains how the brain can be physically altered to regain the use of limbs disabled by a stroke, recover from depression, reverse age-related changes, and acquire new skills even in old age.
Can we change? Challenging the dogma of the hardwired brain -- The enchanted loom; The discovery of neuroplasticity -- New neurons for old brains; Neurogenesis -- A child shall lead them; The neuroplasticity of young brains -- Footprints on the brain; Sensory experience reshapes adult brains -- Mind over matter; Mental activity changes the brain -- Nature through nurture; Turning on genes in the brain -- Blaming Mom? Rewired for compassion -- Transforming the emotional mind; Challenging the happiness "Set point" -- Now what?
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| 111.84 D771I Is nature ever evil? : | 121 W664C Consilience : | 126 R215C Consciousness studies : | 128 B416T Train your mind, change your brain : | 128.2 C619M Mind and emergence : | 146.7 D398D Darwin's dangerous idea : | 149.2 M978M On the moral nature of the universe : |
"Foreword by the Dalai Lama, preface by Daniel Goleman"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-275) and index.
Can we change? Challenging the dogma of the hardwired brain -- The enchanted loom; The discovery of neuroplasticity -- New neurons for old brains; Neurogenesis -- A child shall lead them; The neuroplasticity of young brains -- Footprints on the brain; Sensory experience reshapes adult brains -- Mind over matter; Mental activity changes the brain -- Nature through nurture; Turning on genes in the brain -- Blaming Mom? Rewired for compassion -- Transforming the emotional mind; Challenging the happiness "Set point" -- Now what?
A study of the new science of neuroplasticity explains how the brain can be physically altered to regain the use of limbs disabled by a stroke, recover from depression, reverse age-related changes, and acquire new skills even in old age.
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