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Woman Who Changed Her Brain How I Left My Learning Disability Behind and Other Stories of Cognitive Transformation

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ISBN-10: 1451607946

ISBN-13: 9781451607949

Edition: 2013

Authors: Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, Norman Doidge

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Barbara Arrowsmith-Youngwas 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 Braininterweaves her personal tale with riveting case histories from her more than thirty years of working with both children and adults.Recent discoveries…    
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Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 9/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and New York Times bestselling author. He is on the Research Faculty at Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and on the faculty at the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry. He and his work have been profiled and cited in, among others, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, Scientific American Mind, Melbourne Age, The Guardian, The Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Psychology Today, O The Oprah Magazine, and the National Review.    

Foreword
Introduction
The Anatomy of Resistance
Monaghan Road
Learning (And Reversing) My ABCs
The Fog
Brain Work: Arrowsmith Core Principles
University Haze
The Fog is Dispelled
Lost in Translation
Hitting the Wall
Words Fail
Leap Before You Look
When a Picture Does Not Paint a Thousand Words
A Closed Book
Nothing to Write Home About
Blind to One's Own Body
A School Takes Shape
Lost in Space
Drawing a Blank
Seeing and Not Seeing
When 2+2 Does Not Equal 4
In One Ear and Out the Other
The Impact of Learning Disabilities
Word Spreads
Description of the Cognitive Deficits Addressed by the Arrowsmith Program
Lobes of the Brain
Brodmann Areas of the Brain
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index