The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity Audiobook

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• #1 Globe and Mail Nonfiction Bestseller#1 Toronto Star Nonfiction Bestseller 

• Brilliant and highly original. Neurology used to be considered a depressing discipline with patients often displaying fascinating but essentially untreatable symptoms and disabilities. Drawing on the last three decades of research, Doidge challenges this view, using vivid portraits of patients and their physicians. The book is a treasure trove of the author’s own deep insights and a clear bright light of optimism shines through every page.

  — V. S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD, neurologist, neuroscientist, and author of The Tell-Tale Brain (W. W. Norton, 2011), Director, UCSD Center for Brain and Cognition 

• A tour de force. In one of the most riveting books on the human brain and its mystery powers ever written, Doidge addresses the role of alternative medical therapies to reset and re-sync the dynamic patterns of ‘energy in our brain, whit the ability to restore relatively normal health to those whose fate seems hopeless. . . . These are people that traditional medicine all but abandoned as . . . untreatable. But they were rescued. . . . It’s possible to start anywhere in the book and be mesmerized.

  — Huffington Post

• An exciting overview of powerful new neuroscience theories that connect mind, body, and soul . . . In this age of distraction and unnatural environments and actions—like staring at screens all day—brain science offers all kinds of useful techniques to care for our infinitely complex selves. Norman Doidge’s work is a Michelin Guide to this hopeful new trove of knowledge and insight.

  — Boston Globe, USA

• Stunning . . . The Brain’s Way of Healing is another groundbreaking book by Norman Doidge.
 His style keeps you going into the deep dark secrets
of how the brain works. . . . [H]is reframing of remarkable treatments
that I had categorized as gimmicky left me fascinated and humbled. He brings a whole new level of insight into the body, brain, mind connection
that will impact any reader.

  — John J. Ratey, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School and author of Driven to Distraction

• Bold, remarkable . . . paradigm challenging. The Brain’s Way of Healing is brilliantly organized, scientifically documented, and a beautifully written narrative that captivates the reader, who is left with the profound message that the brain, similar to other organs, can heal.

  — Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington and author of The Polyvagal Theory 

• Doidge’s book is filled with compelling stories about the power of ingenious technologies and disciplined awareness methods generated by innovators who transcended their own brain challenges, and who now use them to help others make radical improvements in conditions often deemed hopeless. It points to a future of remarkable and unprecedented brain healing.

  — Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, Neurologist, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, author of The Autism Revolution

• The book offers real hope to individuals suffering from diverse chronic conditions. It shows in terms of graphic personal stories that we truly do not yet know the limits of what is possible in rehabilitation. The book also has a number of creative integrations of the data that will be of interest to neuroscientists.

  — Edward Taub, Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscientist, University Professor,University of Alabama at Birmingham, Director, UAB CI Therapy Research Group and Taub Training Clinic

• Everyone who has a brain could benefit from reading Doidge’s book.

  — The Columbus Dispatch

• A vivid, robust and optimistic read . . . an essential addition to our growing understanding of the mind-brain-body connection. Doidge argues quite convincingly that when the brain is damaged or incompletely formed, whether from stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, autism, ADHD or a host of other conditions, it’s entirely possible to “rewire” the circuits by training a different part of the brain to take over the task. . . . He's positively elegant in his crystalline explanations of brain science for a lay audience.

  — Toronto Star, Canada

• This is a book of miracles: an absorbing compendium of unlikely recoveries from physical and mental ailments offers evidence that the brain can heal. Fascinating . . . brings to mind Oliver Sacks.

  — Guardian

• Dazzling . . . In friendly vignettes reminiscent of Oliver Sacks’s case studies, Doidge chronicles the heroic efforts of patients with a wide variety of apparently intractable ailments, from chronic pain to multiple sclerosis. . . . Each of Doidge’s examples suggests tangible treatment ideas for patients who may have thought they were out of options. Doidge’s penchant for considering unconventional approaches to healing offers hope for all.

  — Bookpage, USA

• Beautifully written . . . inspiring . . . merging scientific information into timeless and fascinating personal stories . . . The Brain's Way of Healing grabs onto the reader at once and compels them to keep reading. This is an important and encouraging book.

  — The Vancouver Sun, Canada

• Exhilarating science . . . In an era of ever-increasing medicalisation of the human mind, and the medication of it, the appeal of neuroplasticity outlined by Doidge is addictive. It is inspiring, page-turning stuff.

  — Sunday Times, London

• A fascinating study on brain science that shows the way to major therapeutic discoveries.

  — Library Journal

• “A vivid, robust and optimistic read…He’s positively elegant in his crystalline explanations of brain science for a lay audience.”

  — Toronto Star (Canada)

• “An exciting overview of powerful new neuroscience theories…In this age of distraction and unnatural environments and actions—like staring at screens all day—brain science offers all kinds of useful techniques to care for our infinitely complex selves. Norman Doidge’s work is a Michelin Guide to this hopeful new trove of knowledge and insight.”

  — Boston Globe

• “One of the most riveting books on the human brain and its mystery powers ever written,..[about] the ability to restore relatively normal health to those whose fate seems hopeless…These are people that traditional medicine all but abandoned as…untreatable. But they were rescued…It’s possible to start anywhere in the book and be mesmerized.”

  — Huffington Post

• “Dr. Doidge’s clear descriptions of exciting break-through brain research will give readers a heartening new sense of the dynamism of the body we live with daily.”

  — Barnes&Noble.com

• “Narrator George Newbern performs with clarity and depth of understanding. His voice varies appropriately and holds one’s attention throughout this extended production…Newbern’s moderate reading—neither too dry nor too enthusiastic—promotes listener receptivity by keeping this often fantastical-sounding information firmly grounded.”

  — AudioFile