Train your mind, change your brain
Subtitle: how a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves
By: Sharon Begley
Edition: Trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780345479891
Subjects: Brain; Buddhism; Psychophysiology; Mind and body; Neuroplasticity; Buddhism and science; Philosophy of mind
Description: A study of the new science of neuroplasticity explains how the brain can be physically altered to regain the use of limbs disabled by a stroke, recover from depression, reverse age-related changes, and acquire new skills even in old age.
Notes: "Foreword by the Dalai Lama, preface by Daniel Goleman"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Can we change? Challenging the dogma of the hardwired brain; title: Th enchanted loom; The discovery of neuroplasticity; title: New neurons for old brains; Neurogenesis; title: A child shall lead them; The neuroplasticity of young brains; title: Footprints on the brain; Sensory experience reshapes adult brains; title: Mind over matter; Mental activity changes the brain; title: Nature through nurture; Turning on genes in the brain; title: Blaming Mom? Rewired for compassion; title: Transforming the emotional mind; Challenging the happiness "Set point"; title: Now what?