Doidge (The Brain That Changes Itself) explores the idea of “using the body to treat the brain” by surveying specialists and patients who’ve personally experienced the power of neuroplasticity—the ...

In 1996 a computer programmer named David Webber suffered an eye condition called uveitis. He tried anti-inflammatory steroids, surgical procedures, and special glasses but lost his sight. After ...

DENVER, CO - Norman Doidge, MD, Canadian born author and psychiatrist, has released a new book on the brain's ability to change and heal (neuroplasticity). Dr. Doidge's new work, "The Brain's Way of ...

A growing understanding of the highly "plastic," changeable nature of the brain--from the level of DNA, proteins, neuronal connections and networks, up to communication across brain regions--is ...

Science used to be convinced that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging, but a new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overturning this notion. instead, research is showing that the ...

February 13, 2009 (Honolulu, Hawaii) — Some suggest the discovery of neuroplasticity is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience since the revelation of the brain's basic anatomy. Proponents ...

In December of 1993, former World Boxing Champion John Famechon (who had sustained severe incapacitating brain injuries in August 1991) began a new, complex multi-movement therapy and rehabilitation ...