The Woman who Changed Her Brain

<p>Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her as slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backwards, was physically uncoordinated and she continually got lost. But <b>by relying on her formidable memory and iron will</b>, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to 'fix' her own brain, which we now now as neuroplasticity.<br><br><b><i>The Woman Who Changed Her Brain</i> interweaves Barbara's personal story with riveting case</b> <b>histories</b> from over thirty years of working with both children and adults at what became the Arrowsmith School in Toronto. This remarkable book by a brilliant pioneer deepens our understanding of how the brain works. Our brains may shape us, but this book offers clear and hopeful evidence of the corollary: that we can shape our brains. <br><br>Foreword by Norman Doidge, M. D., author of <i>The Brain that Changes Itself</i></p> <p>Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her as slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backwards, was physically uncoordinated and she continually got lost. But <b>by relying on her formidable memory and iron will</b>, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to 'fix' her own brain, which we now now as neuroplasticity.<br><br><b><i>The Woman Who Changed Her Brain</i> interweaves Barbara's personal story with riveting case</b> <b>histories</b> from over thirty years of working with both children and adults at what became the Arrowsmith School in Toronto. This remarkable book by a brilliant pioneer deepens our understanding of how the brain works. Our brains may shape us, but this book offers clear and hopeful evidence of the corollary: that we can shape our brains. <br><br>Foreword by Norman Doidge, M. D., author of <i>The Brain that Changes Itself</i></p>