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

The Brain That Changes Itself

Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By
Norman Doidge
Norman Doidge
2007 • 427 pages

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14 books

Psychology

General
Spiro
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The brain's way of healing
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Blink

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24 books

Science

General
Spiro
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Factfulness
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The Future of Humanity
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation
Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports

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7 books

Medicine

General
Spiro
Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports
The brain's way of healing
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Editing Humanity
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
Younger Next Year
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

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6 books

Nonfiction

AthenaK
Athena
Blink
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Outliers: The Story of Success
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Thinking, Fast and Slow

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285 books

Brain

haunt
Haunt
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Madness: A Bipolar Life
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year With the Criminally Insane
Marbles

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286 books

Nonfiction Gen

haunt
Haunt
Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
Columbine

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69 books

Sci Med

haunt
Haunt
Lab Girl
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
H is for Hawk
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

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5 books

Science

Clemens
Clemens
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

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21 books

Theoretical Management

neilmcgillivray
Neil
The Age of Unreason
The Speed of Trust
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Quiet Leadership
Design Methods 2: 200 more ways to apply Design Thinking
Six Sigma+Lean Toolset: Executing Improvement Projects Successfully

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216 books

Nonfiction

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Hilm
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
In A Sunburned Country
Growing Up Queer in Australia

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44 books

Psychology Neurology

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cinske
The Conscious Mind
Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
The evolution of desire : strategies of human mating
The Road Less Traveled
An Argument for Mind
The Mind's Past
The Master and His Emissary

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621 books

Owned

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Eva
High Fidelity
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Near to the Wild Heart
La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
H is for Hawk
My Absolute Darling
Coders

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48 books

Favorites

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Eva
Schachnovelle
Lord of the Flies
Dune
Diaspora
Sons and Lovers
The Fountainhead

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24 books

Decade2000s

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Eva
The City & The City
Sum
In Search of Time: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension
The Three-Body Problem
Thinking in systems : a primer
The Vegetarian
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

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37 books

Mind

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Eva
Hallucinations
Willpower
Making up the Mind
Lucid Dreaming
Catching the Light
Internal time
Free Will

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249 books

Non Fiction

evsccc
Eva
Men Explain Things to Me
When Breath Becomes Air
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Thank You for Being Late
Lab Girl
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
Hackers

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34 books

Psychology

evsccc
Eva
Im Grunde gut: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Attention Merchants
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures

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365 books

Blinkist

daanz
Daan Zeeuwe
Kaizen
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Lives of the Stoics
A Handbook for New Stoics
Making Sense

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12 books

I think, therefore I am

glimmer
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The Enigma of Reason
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
The Illusion of Conscious Will
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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61 books

Non Fiction

katy246
Katy
Salt: A World History
Decisive
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
The Four Tendencies
Periodic Tales

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118 books

🤖 To Read

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Orange Tsunami
The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity
No More Mr. Nice Guy
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
The Sociopath Next Door
The Concise Laws of Human Nature

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171 books

Kindle

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M. Gelle Abdullahi
Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
Sophie's Choice
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Cinema Speculation (audiobook)
Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood

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26 books

ι Science

HenriButter
Emil
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
Breakdown of Will
The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy

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305 books

Wish List Non Fiction

Zed
Zed
The Library at Night
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Cale
What's Welsh for Zen: The Autobiography of John Cale
Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale
The Story of George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs

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23 books

Geek Reads

Tara123
Tara
Cognitive Load Theory
Cognitive Load Theory: A handbook for teachers
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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