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Written for the lay person so everyone can benefit from it. Excellent. very informative and resourceful.
Worth a magazine article, but makes for a very repetitious book. If you're interested in reading about how stupid scientists, one in particular, repeatedly tortured and mutilated animals to learn what could have been simply observed, this is the book for you. If anything, demonstrates how scientists are generally belief-driven imbeciles like everyone else. The point is simple: mental processing is flexible, at any age. In other words, as the author puts it, the brain has plasticity, not rigidly mapped, as many scientists wrongly believed for a long time, and many likely still do.
I appreciate that there are computer programs in place that we can access and use. Also offers hope for those subject to memory loss in later years. The most enlightening information has to do with the way the brain will change itself and develop new patterns depending on how we choose to use our energies and time. Very interesting research, especially for ADD and ADHD and Autistic children. Offers hope for normalization.
Written in clear understandable prose for non-scientists, with numerous case studies, this book gave me new insights into the old cliché, "Use it or lose it." There's a reason some people continue vigorous and healthy well into their eighties, while couch potatoes quickly decline. This fascinating account of the phenomenon of brain plasticity covers the stunning neurological research of the last three decades, which has conclusively shown that the brain, rather than being a completely mature organ by the time of puberty, has enormous powers of adaptation and growth throughout life. Highly recommended. Of course, physical health and well-being are major factors, but brain and body are more closely connected than scientists ever thought possible. Think of the brain as a muscle which, rather than slowly changing over a period of months and weeks through vigorous exercise, is capable of changing in a matter of hours to adapt to new stimuli. This notion has enormous potential for the treatment of stroke, phantom limb syndrome, chronic pain, addiction, and the plain old effects of aging, among many other things.
regards i must say i'm really disappointed in that i ordered this book nearly five weeks ago and i received notice of its being sent have yet to see it. in the meanwhile other orders that i have placed for other books have been received.
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