Title: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Author: Norman Doidge
Year:2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 448
I'd have liked to read this as a print book so I could check facts. There's evidence for some of the author's assertions but evidence against others. Without being able to see references, it's hard to read critically--a common problem for me with audiobooks.
Doidge's assertion (also made by one of his informants, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, in her The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation) is about our contemporary understanding of brain plasticity and generally unidentified or underutilized ways to build interventions based on the brain's ability to re-circuit or reconstruct itself. I believe some of this to be true, but I'd like to review the studies so I can evaluate which parts are accurate and which are the neuro version of "when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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