Praise for "The Brain s Way of Healing" Brilliant and highly original. Neurology used to be considered a depressing discipline with patients often displaying fascinating but essentially untreatable symptoms and disabilities. Drawing on the last three decades of research, Doidge challenges this view, using vivid portraits of patients and their physicians. The book is a treasure trove of the author s own deep insights and a clear bright light of optimism shines through every page. V. S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD, neurologist, neuroscientist, and authorof "The Tell-Tale Brain" (W. W. Norton, 2011), Director, UCSD Center for Brainand Cognition A tour de force. In one of the most riveting books on the human brain and its mystery powers ever written, Doidge addresses the role of alternative medical therapies to reset and re-sync the dynamic patterns of energy in our brain, whit the ability to restore relatively normal health to those whose fate seems hopeless. . . . These are people that traditional medicine all but abandoned as . . . untreatable. But they were rescued. . . . It s possible to start anywhere in the book and be mesmerized. "Huffington Post" An exciting overview of powerful new neuroscience theories that connect mind, body, and soul . . . In this age of distraction and unnatural environments and actions like staring at screens all day brain science offers all kinds of useful techniques to care for our infinitely complex selves. Norman Doidge s work is a Michelin Guide to this hopeful new trove of knowledge and insight. "Boston Globe," USA Brilliant and highly original. Neurology used to be considered a depressing discipline with patients often displaying fascinating but essentially untreatable symptoms and disabilities. Drawing on the last three decades of research, Doidge challenges this view, using vivid portraits of patients and their physicians. The book is a treasure trove of the author s own deep insights and a clear bright light of optimism shines through every page. V. S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD, neurologist, neuroscientist, and author of "The Tell-Tale Brain"; Director, UCSD Center for Brain and Cognition Doidge s book is filled with compelling stories about the power of ingenious technologies and disciplined awareness methods generated by innovators who transcended their own brain challenges, and who now use them to help others make radical improvements in conditions often deemed hopeless. It points to a future of remarkable and unprecedented brain healing. Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, Neurologist, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, author of "The Autism Revolution" "The Brain s way of Healing" is a stunner the sort of book you want to read several times, not because it is difficult to understand, but because it opens up so many novel and startling avenues into our potential to heal. Norman Doidge enthralls us with a rich combination of lucidly explained brain research and pioneering new (and some not so new, but not widely known) approaches to recovery. With an eloquence reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, Doidge bolsters the latest advances in brain science with a series of extraordinary case histories of people for whom all hope seemed to be lost, but who healed as a result of great personal courage, and by changing the ways their bodies and brains processed sensations and movement. This hopeful book demonstrates that a variety of sensory inputs light, sound, electricity, vibration, movement, and thought can awaken the brain s attention processors, and thereby allow even the most afflicted to (re)gain ownership of their lives. Bessel van der Kolk MD, Medical Director, the Trauma Center, Brookline MA; Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Author of "The Body keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the healing of Trauma" The book offers real hope to individuals suffering from diverse chronic conditions. It shows in terms of graphic personal stories that we truly do not yet know the limits of what is possible in rehabilitation. The book also has a number of creative integrations of the data that will be of interest to neuroscientists. Edward Taub, Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscientist, University Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Director, UAB CI Therapy Research Group and Taub Training Clinic Everyone who has a brain could benefit from reading Doidge s book. "The Columbus Dispatch" A vivid, robust and optimistic read . . . an essential addition to our growing understanding of the mind-brain-body connection. Doidge argues quite convincingly that when the brain is damaged or incompletely formed, whether from stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, autism, ADHD or a host of other conditions, it s entirely possible to rewire the circuits by training a different part of the brain to take over the task. . . . He's positively elegant in his crystalline explanations of brain science for a lay audience. "Toronto Star," Canada This is a book of miracles: an absorbing compendium of unlikely recoveries from physical and mental ailments offers evidence that the brain can heal. Fascinating . . . brings to mind Oliver Sacks. "Guardian " Dazzling . . . In friendly vignettes reminiscent of Oliver Sacks s case studies, Doidge chronicles the heroic efforts of patients with a wide variety of apparently intractable ailments, from chronic pain to multiple sclerosis. . . . Each of Doidge s examples suggests tangible treatment ideas for patients who may have thought they were out of options. Doidge s penchant for considering unconventional approaches to healing offers hope for all. "Bookpage," USA Beautifully written . . . inspiring . . . merging scientific information into timeless and fascinating personal stories . . . "The Brain's Way of Healing" grabs onto the reader at once and compels them to keep reading. This is an important and encouraging book. "The Vancouver Sun," Canada Exhilarating science . . . In an era of ever-increasing medicalisation of the human mind, and the medication of it, the appeal of neuroplasticity outlined by Doidge is addictive. It is inspiring, page-turning stuff. "Sunday Times," London" A fascinating study on brain science that shows the way to major therapeutic discoveries. "Library Journal"""

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 City and on the faculty of the University of Toronto s Department of Psychiatry as well. He lives in Toronto."