Norman Doidge Quotes

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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…
• Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a…
• Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
• Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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