"Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and……" — Norman Doidge
"Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity."
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9 Quotes by Norman Doidge
Norman Doidge has 9 quotes on this site.
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We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and…
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Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After…
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Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...
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All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same…
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Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand…
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Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death.…
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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,…
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The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help…
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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