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The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780732292393 Author(s): Barbara Arrowsmith-Young Format: Paperback Year: 2012 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Dimensions: 155 x 22 x 234 (w x l x h) Pages: 288
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Description: The woman who built herself a better brain! Barbara Arrowsmith-Young is a pioneer; a bold and ingenious woman, deeply empathic and utterly determined. 'Rarely is the person who makes a discovery the one with the defect. Barbara Arrowsmith-Young is an exception' - Dr. Norman Doidge bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn-or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense of an analogue clock. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to 'fix' her own brain. the Woman Who Changed Her Brain interweaves her personal tale with riveting case histories from her more than thirty years of working with both children and adults. Recent discoveries in neuroscience have conclusively demonstrated that, by engaging in certain mental tasks or activities, we actually change the structure of our brains-from the cells themselves to the connections between cells. the capability of nerve cells to change is known as neuroplasticity, and Arrowsmith-Young has been putting it into practice for decades. With great inventiveness, after combining two lines of research, Barb
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