Brain Science Podcast #26: Author Norman Doidge, MD discusses Neuroplasticity Listen Now
The following podcast is from renowned author Norman Doidge speaking about the brain's ability to change itself and create new neuropathways. This is the science behind brain training services to enable students who learn differently be able to strengthen underlying cognitive skills, create new neuropathways and improve their ability to process, organize and learn easily and efficiently. What are your thoughts?
Episode 26 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Norman Doidge, MD, author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (2007). Dr. Doidge and I agree that neuroplasticity is the most important discovery about the brain that has been made in several hundred years. In his interview Dr. Doidge talks about some of the obstacles that delayed this discovery including what he calls the “plastic paradox,” which is the fact that plasticity itself can contribute to the development of rigid behaviors, including addictions and bad habits.
The Brain That Changes Itself includes the work of the key scientists of neuroplasticity. In my conversation with Dr. Doidge we talked about the work of Paul Bach-y-Rita, Edward Taub, and VS Ramachandran. Dr. Doidge also shared how his own work is being effected and why he thinks neuroplasticity has the potential to lead to more important discoveries.
source: Brain Science Podcast Blog
