The Brain's Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction (2016) Author: Geshe Michael Roach

Author: Geshe Michael Roach

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The Brain's Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction (2016) Author: Geshe Michael RoachThis book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brains complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and unregenerative unable to recover from damage or illness. In his revolutionary new book, Norman Doidge turns this belief on its head. The phenomenon of neuroplasticity the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function