The Living Brain - An Interview with Norman Doidge
About Norman Doidge
Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York and the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry. You can visit his website at NormanDoidge.com.
Did you that your brain can grow new cells, reorganize its networks, and improve with time? This is not the immutable organ you learned about in high school biology class. The human brain is in fact a living, changing structure with immense potential for development.
If you find this notion interesting, you must read The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge. It’s one of the most exciting books of 2007.
In the podcast above, ScribeMedia.Org had the opportunity to discuss his ideas above the current revolution going on in neuroscience.
Michael Cervieri is Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.Org and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
I just heard , for the second time, a repeat interview with Dr. Doidge and Chris Boyd on her NPR radio show titled”Think”. She gave his website and I checked it out this time. I have a grand son who has Asburger Sundrome, his father just had a malignant brain tumor removed, my son is a teacher and an AcDec coach(his daughter has been diagnosed as ADD), and my mom and I are getting older(65 and 81) and we are becoming more forgetful (the here after ? effect), so this was really interesting to me. I will buy at least one copy of,The Brain That Changes Itself.