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2807577The Woman who Changed Her Brainhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-woman-who-changed-her-brain-9781448129614/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3374743/b51a6052-79de-4e94-942d-9ff6245f1da0.jpg?v=638866204011600000284334MXNRandom HouseInStock/Ebooks/<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 <strong>by relying on her formidable memory and iron will</strong>, 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.</p><p><strong><em>The Woman Who Changed Her Brain</em> interweaves Barbaras personal story with riveting case</strong> <strong>histories</strong> 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.</p><p>Foreword by Norman Doidge, M. D., author of <em>The Brain that Changes Itself</em></p>...2743584The Woman who Changed Her Brain284334https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-woman-who-changed-her-brain-9781448129614/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3374743/b51a6052-79de-4e94-942d-9ff6245f1da0.jpg?v=638866204011600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20129781448129614_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_<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 <strong>by relying on her formidable memory and iron will</strong>, 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.</p><p><strong><em>The Woman Who Changed Her Brain</em> interweaves Barbaras personal story with riveting case</strong> <strong>histories</strong> 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.</p><p>Foreword by Norman Doidge, M. D., author of <em>The Brain that Changes Itself</em></p>...9781448129614_Random Houselibro_electonico_b1af5521-1395-4517-bfce-f103c2a66514_9781448129614;9781448129614_9781448129614Barbara Arrowsmith-YoungInglésMéxico2012-05-24T00:00:00+00:00Random House