33 Quotes by norman doidge

He is social, but not in large groups. “I don’t go readily to cocktail parties, where people just come together and talk. I don’t tend to like that kind of thing. I’d rather sit down with somebody and find a mutual topic of interest, and explore it in depth with that person, or maybe two or three people. Not a conversation that says how do you feel”.

Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience.

To my mind, every emergency room should have a low-intensity laser for people with stroke or head trauma. This therapy would be especially important for head injuries, because there is no effective drug therapy for traumatic brain injury. Uri Oron has also shown that low-intensity laser light can reduce scar formation in animals that have had heart attacks; perhaps lasers should be used in emergency rooms for cardiac.

Moskowitz defined chronic pain as “learned pain.” Chronic pain not only indicates illness; it is itself an illness. The body’s alarm system is stuck in the “on” position, because the person has been unable to remedy the cause of an acute pain, and the central nervous system has become damaged.

6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As.

Pain is an opinion on the organism’s state of health rather than a mere reflexive response to injury.

When such patterns are triggered in therapy, it gives the patient a chance to look at them and change them, for as we saw in chapter 4, “Acquiring Tastes and Loves,” positive bonds appear to facilitate neuroplastic change by triggering unlearning and dissolving existing neuronal networks, so the patient can alter his existing intentions.

8. Errors are essential, and there is no right way to move, only better ways. Feldenkrais didn’t correct errors or “fix” people.

The brain can shut pain off because the actual function of acute pain is not to torment us but to alert us to danger.