Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

Name: Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
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ISBN: 9780345479891

ISBN-10: 0345479890

ISBN-13: 9780345479891

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Authors: Sharon Begley

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In this fascinating and far-reaching book, "Newsweek "science writer Sharon Begley reports on how cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by changing our minds. Recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity-the ability of the brain to change in response to experience-reveal that the brain is capable of altering its structure and function, and even of generating new neurons, a power we retain well into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma, compensate for disabilities, rewire itself to overcome dyslexia, and break cycles of depression and…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Acknowledgments



I Can We Change?: Challenging the Dogma of the Hardwired Brain



The Enchanted Loom: The Discovery of Neuroplaslicity



New Neurons for Old Brains: Neurogenesis



A Child Shall Lead Them: The Neuroplasticity of Young Brains



Footprints on the Brain: Sensory Experience Reshapes Adult Brains



Mind over Matter: Mental Activity Changes the Brain



Nature through Nurture: Turning On Genes in the Brain



Blaming Mom?: Rewired for Compassion



Transforming the Emotional Mind: Challenging the Happiness "Set Point"



Now What?


Appendix


Notes


Index