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Gail Buckley
Explaining Phantom Limbs and Pain
The phantom limb was first proposed by Silas Weir Mitchell, an American physician who tended the wounded at Gettysburg and became...
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The Tale of The Silver Spring Monkeys
Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich, in his experiments, showed that when sensory input from a finger was cut off, brain map changes...
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Constraint Induced Therapy for Speech
The principles of constraint-induced therapy have been applied by a team headed by Dr. Friedemann Pulvermuller in Germany, which worked...
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Constraint Induced Therapy for Cerebral Palsy
Neuroscientist Edward Taub has applied CI principles to a number of other disorders. He has begun working with children with cerebral...
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Taub’s Constraint Induced Therapy Cures Paralysis
Nicole von Ruden is the kind of person who lights up the room the moment she walks in. Born in 1967, she has worked as an elementary...
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Stroke Recovery Is Possible for Anyone at Anytime
Jeremiah Andrews (not his real name), a fifty-three-year-old lawyer, had his stroke forty-five years before he went to the Taub clinic...
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Shaping and Massed Practice Rehabilitation
In May 1981 Edward Taub was forty-nine, heading up his own lab, the Behavioral Biology Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, with grand...
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Constraint Induced Therapy and Learned Nonuse
In the 1970s, Edward Taub, then a behavioral psychiatrist, took a job as a research assistant in an experimental neurology lab, to better...
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Gail Buckley
A New Take on Stroke Rehabilitation
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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“I Can Connect Anything to Anything”
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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Paul Bach-y-Rita and Sensory Substitution
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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How Barbara Arrowsmith Young Changed Her Brain
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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Explaining Obsessions and Compulsions - OCD
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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Neurons that Fire Together Wire Together
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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What Microelectrodes Tell Us About Critical Periods
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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Micro-mapping the Mind with Microelectrodes
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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How Brain Mapping Came About
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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Veering Away from Localizationism
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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The Man with A Shattered World
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
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