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Summary: In this book, Norman Doidge, describes how neuroplasticity works, significantly broadening the field from traumatic brain injury to all manner of diseases and conditions in which brain functioning is a factor including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and dementia and describes how patients have retrained their brains and learned to walk, speak, or hear, while others have reset the brain’s energy patterns and circuits to overcome or reduce chronic pain or alleviate anxiety, trauma, learning disorders, and many other impairing syndromes.
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PACER’s Review: This fascinating book brings together a collection of case studies by neurologist Oliver Sacks, showcasing some of the most extraordinary neurological and psychological conditions. The author highlights how little we understand about ourselves and how both revealing and bizarre it is when the machinery of our mind fails us. Highly recommend this book to those searching for a stimulating, thought-provoking, yet entertaining read within the field of neuroscience and psychology.
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Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of the brain, her respect for the cells in her body, and an amazing mother, Jill completely recovered. In My Stroke of Insight, she shares her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the two halves of her brain. When she lost the skills of her left brain, her consciousness shifted away from normal reality where she felt “at one with the universe.” Taylor helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel and how we react to life’s circumstances.
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When an occupational therapist suffers a massive stroke while attending a wedding in her native England, she can’t believe it. Janet R. Douglas emerges from a coma weeks later at a Chicago hospital where she once worked. Her left side is totally paralyzed, her eyesight impaired, her memory and identity lost. Trapped in the present, she finds herself talking in German even though she has seldom spoken the language since high school. With no understanding of the severity of her problems, she resists therapy, thinking she doesn’t need it. Despite all odds, she returns to her high-powered job only to find herself cast adrift by a corporate reorganization. With time on her hands, she carries out her own research to find out how damage to one specific part of the brain affects behavior. From the perspective of both therapist and patient, Douglas explains the impact of stroke, how it makes the simplest tasks difficult, and how the visible disabilities it causes are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Accepting a changed new life is one of the greatest challenges brain injury survivors face. It’s also one of the most important. Coming to terms with brain injury can mean the difference between a mournful life spent looking backward and a meaningful life spent moving forward. This brain injury book offers hope for those struggling with an unexpected new life. Accepting brain injury may not be easy, but it is possible. Long-term brain injury survivor Carole Starr offers gentle encouragement, hard-won wisdom and numerous strategies that survivors, caregivers and professionals can use.
To Root & To Rise is more than a book; it’s also a workbook. The questions in each chapter allow readers to take Carole’s strategies and apply them to their own experience.
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PACER’s Review:
How can people who are paralysed from brain damage use cutlery or button their shirts again? Contrary to what was believed for so long, the brain is not hardwired but can change, grow and regenerate itself. Drawing on real-life cases of scientists, doctors and patients, The Brain that Changes Itself shows us how rather than relying on surgery and medicine, we can alter our brains through our thoughts and behaviour.
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PACER’s Review: How I Rescued My Brain is a book by Author and Psychologist David Roland. It is a story of David’s neurological difficulties and his remarkable cognitive recovery. It also shared on the journey to emotional health and wellbeing. An amazing tale of one man’s resilience and his determination to overcome the most frightening situations imaginable – the fear that he had lost his mind and may not get it back.
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PACER’s Review: Neurocomic is a journey through the human brain by Dr. Matteo Farinella and Dr. Hana Ros. It is a quick read to learn what the brain is made of and how it functions – all in the form of a graphic novel.
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