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Norman Doidge - From the Concentration category:
- The Brain That Changes Itself...
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]. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Culture category:
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Education category:
- The Brain That Changes Itself...
Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Fear category:
Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Freedom category:
We're trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Health category:
Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Influence category:
-The Brain That Changes Itself...
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. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Intellect category:
Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day... (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Knowledge category:
-The Brain That Changes Itself...
After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Life category:
Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Thought category:
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Vulnerability category:
-The Brain That Changes Itself...
Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Words category:
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. (Norman Doidge)
Norman Doidge - From the Worry category:
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. (Norman Doidge)
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