# The Brain That Changes Itself

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Norman Doidge]]
- Full Title: The Brain That Changes Itself
- Category: #books

## Highlights
- All the names of people who have undergone neuroplastic transformations are real
- Without operations or medications, they have made use of the brain’s hitherto unknown ability to change
- For four hundred years this venture would have been inconceivable because mainstream medicine and science believed that brain anatomy was fixed
- The common wisdom was that after childhood the brain changed only when it began the long process of decline; that when brain cells failed to develop properly, or were injured, or died, they could not be replaced.