The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - Norman Doidge

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge explores neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to reorganise its structure and function in response to experience, learning and injury. Through case studies of patients, clinicians and pioneering researchers, he examines how people have regained movement and speech after strokes, improved learning and perception, managed chronic pain and addressed entrenched habits. The book also considers the influence of imagination, culture and psychotherapy on the brain. First published in 2007, it helped bring research into neuroplasticity to a broad popular audience and includes a foreword endorsement from neurologist Oliver Sacks.