It used to be thought that the brain was like a mechanism, and if one part broke, then that bit simply wouldn't work any more. Scientists considered the brain to be 'hardwired', or fixed. Now they're beginning to understand that the brain isn't like that at all. That the brain can change its structure and the way it
works - it's actually more like a plant than a machine.

Eminent Canadian psychiatrist Dr Norman Doidge was fascinated by this new science, called 'neuroplasticity'. He has travelled around the United States meeting not only scientists but their patients, whose lives have been literally transformed by their re-wired brain. He has examples that seem fanastic, unbelievable - like the woman born with half a brain that re-wired itself to work as a whole, children with learning disorders cured; IQ's raised - the list goes on. Ninety year olds are changing their brain in only weeks to have the function of someone thirty years younger. It turns out that there need be no 'habits of a lifetime' - with exercises you can change the brain onto a different path.

Norman has written about his research and chronicles many of these incredible real-life stories in his book The Brain that Changes Itself. He does his own brain exercises every day without fail!



 

Broadcast on ABC radio Tuesday 30th September 2008

Research


The research in Primary Reflexes started in Russia (then USSR) early in 20th century and gained impetus when Jean-Pierre Changeux - Professor of, and researcher in, Neurological Medecine in Lariboisiere hospital in Paris, France, discovered (circa 1950) that a foetus moves in particular patterns in utero.


Jean-Pierre Changeux’s discovery encouraged other researchers to go further and deeper in the same direction, then followed:

    -the mapping/dating and naming of the newly discovered Primary Reflexes,

    -the discovery that retained Primary reflexes were found in (amongst other

      people) children with Learning difficulties.


As we are writing this, more researchers are continuing with their work...


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