{"id":1893,"date":"2015-02-17T17:57:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normandoidge.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1893"},"modified":"2020-08-26T00:22:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:22:05","slug":"sample-page-2-7-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/?page_id=1893","title":{"rendered":"The Brain’s way of Healing reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t
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Reviews of The Brain\u2019s Way of Healing<\/h1>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t
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“Brilliant and highly original. Neurology used to be considered a depressing discipline with patients often displaying fascinating but essentially untreatable symptoms and disabilities. Drawing on the last three decades of research, Doidge challenges this view, using vivid portraits of patients and their physicians. The book is a treasure-trove of the author’s own deep insights and a clear bright light of optimism shines through every page.”<\/p>\n

\u2014V.S. Ramachandran MBBS, Ph.D., Neurologist, Neuroscientist, and author of \u201cThe Tell-Tale Brain,” Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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“A tour de force. In one of the most riveting books on the human brain and its mystery powers ever written, Doidge addresses the role of alternative medical therapies to reset and re-sync the dynamic patterns of \u2018energy\u2019 in our brain, with the ability to restore relatively normal health to those whose fate seems hopeless.\u2026 These are people that traditional medicine all but abandoned as hopeless, untreatable. But they were rescued\u2026.It\u2019s possible to start anywhere in the book and be mesmerized.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“Bold, remarkable\u2026 paradigm challenging. The Brain\u2019s Way of Healing is brilliantly organized, scientifically documented, and a beautifully written narrative that captivates the reader, who is left with the profound message that the brain, similar to other organs, can heal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. Distinguished University Scientist, Indiana University Bloomington; author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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” In Doidge\u2019s first book, The Brain That Changes Itself<\/em>, he introduced the idea that the brain has plastic properties. His second book, The Brain\u2019s Way of Healing<\/em>, focuses on how brains damaged from birth, or by illness or injury can gain or regain some or all cognitive and motor functionality through neuroplasticity\u2026. With unassuming respect for all he observes, Doidge profiles the pioneers and practitioners of neuroplastic therapy and healing\u2026. Each extraordinary story features an extraordinary doctor with their own extraordinary experience. Doidge\u2019s passion for healing might be expected, given his own medical training as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst but, as he says, \u201cthe true marvel is…the way that the brain has evolved, with sophisticated neuroplastic abilities and a mind that can direct its own unique restorative process of growth\u201d. You can read a lot about it in this book.<\/\n.\u201d\n\n\n\n

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“Stunning\u2026.The Brain\u2019s Way of Healing<\/em> is another ground breaking book by Norman Doidge.\u2028 His style keeps you going into the deep dark secrets\u2028of how the brain works…. his reframing of remarkable treatments\u2028that I had categorized as gimmicky left me fascinated and humbled. He\u2028brings a whole new level of insight into the body, brain, mind connection\u2028that will impact any reader.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John J. Ratey, MD\u2028Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,\u2028Harvard Medical School, author of Driven to Distraction<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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\u201cA vivid, robust and optimistic read\u2026 an essential addition to our growing understanding of the mind-brain-body connection. Doidge argues quite convincingly that when the brain is damaged or incompletely formed, whether from stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, autism, ADHD or a host of other conditions, it\u2019s entirely possible to \u201crewire\u201d the circuits by training a different part of the brain to take over the task\u2026 Doidge has an uncanny knack for addressing questions just as they arise in the reader\u2019s mind\u2026 An award-winning literary writer and journalist as well as a psychiatrist, Doidge has achieved a fine blend here between scientific substance and literary style. While never dumbing down the science, he\u2019s positively elegant in his crystalline explanations of brain science for a lay audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“The Brain\u2019s Way of Healing is a stunner \u2014 the sort of book you want to read several times, not because it is difficult to understand, but because it opens up so many novel and startling avenues into our potential to heal. Norman Doidge enthrals us with a rich combination of lucidly explained brain research and pioneering \u2026 approaches to recovery. With an eloquence reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, Doidge bolsters the latest advances in brain science with a series of extraordinary case histories of people for whom all hope seemed to be lost, but who healed as a result of great personal courage, and by changing the ways their bodies and brains processed sensations and movement. This hopeful book demonstrates that a variety of sensory inputs \u2014 light, sound, electricity, vibration, movement, and thought \u2014can awaken the brain\u2019s attention processors, and thereby allow even the most afflicted to (re)gain ownership of their lives. \u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Bessel van der Kolk M.D., medical director, the Trauma Center, Brookline MA; professor of psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; and author of New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps the Score. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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\u201cDoidge\u2019s book is filled with compelling stories about radical improvements in conditions often deemed hopeless. It points to a future of remarkable and unprecedented brain healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D., neurologist, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and author of The Autism Revolution <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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“Doidge is such a bright star in the firmament of scientific storytelling \u2026 more than any other writer, [he] has shown us how we can seize control of our brain\u2019s destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“This is a book of miracles: an absorbing compendium of unlikely recoveries from physical and mental ailments offers evidence that the brain can heal. Fascinating\u2026.brings to mind Oliver Sacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Lisa Appignanesi, Guardian, Sunday Observer<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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\u201cA dazzling collection of stories about neuroplasticity and the ever-changing brain. . . . cutting-edge treatments that use the body\u2019s senses to access, and improve, neurological functioning. In friendly vignettes reminiscent of Oliver Sacks\u2019 case studies, Doidge chronicles the heroic efforts of patients with a wide variety of apparently intractable ailments, from chronic pain to multiple sclerosis\u2026. Doidge truly takes a holistic approach to his subjects, getting to know them and their doctors and sharing every detail with his readers\u2026.Each of Doidge\u2019s examples suggests tangible treatment ideas for patients who may have thought they were out of options. Doidge\u2019s penchant for considering unconventional approaches to healing offers hope for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeautifully written\u2026inspiring\u2026By merging scientific information into timeless and fascinating personal stories, Doidge makes his discoveries extremely readable.\u2026 In some cases, the results are completely astounding and unexpected\u2026 The Brain\u2019s Way of Healing grabs onto the reader at once and compels them to keep reading. This is an important and encouraging book.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cExhilarating science… In an era of ever-increasing medicalisation of the human mind, and the medication of it, the appeal of neuroplasticity outlined by Doidge is addictive. It is inspiring, page-turning stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cReviewers hailed Norman Doidge’s 2007 The Brain That Changes Itself as a book that showed its author’s rare talent to explain science to the rest of us: “You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to read it\u2014just a person with a curious mind.” Now the physician who was then paired with Oliver Sacks and Stephen Jay Gould returns with a captivating new tome about neuroplasticity, the brain’s astonishing capacity to repair itself after injury or illness. Dr. Doidge’s clear descriptions of exciting breakthrough brain research will give readers a heartening new sense of the dynamism of the body we live with daily.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cDoidge is the master of explaining how the brain\u2019s plasticity can be harnessed to improve the symptoms of brain-related disorders, ranging from stroke to autism\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAn exciting overview of powerful new neuroscience theories that connect mind, body, and soul . . . In this age of distraction and unnatural environments and actions – like staring at screens all day – brain science offers all kinds of useful techniques to care for our infinitely complex selves. Norman Doidge\u2019s work is a Michelin Guide to this hopeful new trove of knowledge and insight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cDoidge is persuasive and curious as a writer, and rigorous as a thinker, though what he writes about is at the edge of our current understanding of mind and body.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cA powerful and brilliant book that gives hope to those with illness\u00a0and creative inspiration to the whole medical community. \u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Brain\u2019s Way of Healing starts with a superb description of the former axiomatic belief in the neuroscience community of the immutability of the CNS and the more recent research that has slain that conceptual dragon. The articulation of the ideas in the book is a model of exposition; the language is direct, simple yet elegant, which is no mean trick when conveying the meaning of technical research studies. The book offers real hope to individuals suffering from diverse chronic conditions. It shows in terms of graphic personal stories that we truly do not yet know the limits of what is possible in rehabilitation. The book also has a number of creative integrations of the data that will be of interest to neuroscientists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Edward Taub, Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscientist,\u00a0<\/em>University Professor,University of Alabama at Birmingham\u00a0<\/em>Director, UAB CI Therapy Research Group and Taub Training Clinic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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\u201cDoidge explains the processes of the brain and body in a clear and understandable way, even to those of us who previously couldn\u2019t distinguish a hippocampus from a hippopotamus. He tells of patients who hobble into labs and medical offices on canes and leave without them after their first visit\u2026For someone who suffers \u2014 or knows someone who suffers \u2014 from an injury or illness related to the brain, both this book as well as Doidge\u2019s previous will provide information \u2014 and perhaps hope \u2014 that the brain can heal itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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