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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
3 reviews
amycam's review
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
4.0
Those with a low tolerance for animal cruelty may want to skip this book. The descriptions of experiments made me put down the book for several weeks.
Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Self harm
anjh's review
dark
emotional
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
3.5
at first i was slightly nervous about starting this as its quite thick and non fiction which for me are two things that don’t go well together. it turns out tho that like 20% of the book is the index and references lmao
anyway, this was actually really interesting. it’s very obvious that the entire theme of the book is around neural plasticity and how this brain process has occurred in various instances of patients.
i learned a lot of new things from this while also reading about things that i already knew and arguably information that is out of date though to be fair this was published in 2007 so idk how much i can really complain.
def recommend for anyone interested in psychology and plasticity in particular
Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Ableism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Self harm, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
user226's review
Remarkable book that lead to major improvements in my mental health. I wasn't expecting the fascinating biographies as wells as the revolutionary science. The second appendix has a useful insight about the way the certain mediums utilising the constant state of orientation effect (video games, movies) are changing the way our brains work - which suggests the value of balancing this with slower things (like deep reading).
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Child abuse
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