Norman Doidge Quotes

• The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

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  Brain, Gone, World

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.26, Penguin

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• El pensamiento cambia la estructura... He visto a personas recablear sus cerebros con sus pensamientos, para curar obsesiones y traumas antes incurables.

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  People, Brain, Saws

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• El entrenamiento mental es importante. No es sólo un lujo o una vitamina suplementaria para el alma. Determina la calidad de cada instante de nuestras vidas.

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  Life, Luxury, Soul

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• Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

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  Brain, Environment, Speed

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.256, Penguin

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• Todo lo que tiene que ver con la formación y la educación humanas debe reexaminarse a la luz de la neuroplasticidad.

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  Education, Light, Training

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• Una vez superado el período crítico inicial de aprendizaje en la juventud, las áreas del cerebro que necesitan "encenderse" para permitir un aprendizaje mejorado y duradero sólo pueden activarse cuando ocurre algo importante, sorprendente o novedoso, o si hacemos el esfuerzo de prestar mucha atención.

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  Knowledge, Long, Effort

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• If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

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  Growth, Littles, Firsts

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• Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

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  Stubborn, Habit, Disorder

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.20, Penguin

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• ...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

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  Mind, Helping, Patient

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.221, Penguin

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• Como se trata de un cerebro de "úsalo o piérdelo", cuando desarrollamos una zona del mapa [en el cerebro], ansiamos mantenerla activada. Igual que nuestros músculos se impacientan por hacer ejercicio si llevamos todo el día sentados.

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  Exercise, Use It Or Lose It, Long

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.108, Penguin

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• We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

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  Love Is, Brain, Essentials

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.116, Penguin

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• All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

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  Intelligent, Essence, Worry

  "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science". Book by Norman Doidge, 2007.

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• Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.

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  Memories, Needs, Analysis

  "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science". Book by Norman Doidge (pp. 229-230), March 15, 2007.

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• La neuroplasticidad contribuye tanto a los aspectos limitados como a los no limitados de nuestra naturaleza. Hace que nuestros cerebros no sólo sean más ingeniosos, sino también más vulnerables a influencias externas.

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  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Influence

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• Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

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  Fear, Ghost, Ancestor

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin

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• Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a lower risk for dementia. Dancing, which requires learning new moves, is both physically and mentally challenging and requires much concentration. Less intense activities, such as bowling, babysitting, and golfing, are not associated with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s. (254)

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  Moving, Reading, Games

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.254, Penguin

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• No todas las actividades son iguales... Las que implican auténtica concentración -estudiar un instrumento musical, jugar a juegos de mesa, leer y bailar- se asocian a un menor riesgo de demencia.

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  Reading, Health, Games

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• We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

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  Brain, Might, Culture

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• Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)

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  Past, Important Relationships, Haunting

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin

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• El desarrollo del lenguaje, por ejemplo, tiene un periodo crítico que empieza en la infancia y termina entre los ocho años y la pubertad. Una vez concluido este periodo crítico, la capacidad de una persona para aprender una segunda lengua sin acento es limitada. De hecho, las segundas lenguas aprendidas después del periodo crítico no se procesan en la misma parte del cerebro que la lengua materna.

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  Eight, Years, Brain

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.52, Penguin

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• Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

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  Memories, Analysis, Action

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.229, Penguin

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• We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

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  Lasting Change, Brain, Attention

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