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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...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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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...
Gail Buckley
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A very black fly settles on my nose. I waggle my head to unseat him. He digs in...
“Sunday. I contemplate my books, piled up on the windowsill to constitute a small library: a rather useless one, for today no one will...
Gail Buckley
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I shed a few tears as we passed the corner café where I used to drop in for a bite
“I shed a few tears as we passed the corner café where I used to drop in for a bite. I can weep discreetly. People think my eye is...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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Michael Merzenich Today - Fast ForWord
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail Buckley
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The Arrowsmith School For Brain Change
Excerpted from the book: The Brain That Changes Itself Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge,...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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Sylvie and I remain alone and silent, her hand squeezing my inert fingers
“Wind begins to whip up the sand. The tide has gone out so far that swimmers look like tiny dots on the horizon. The children run to...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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Today is Father's Day. Until my stroke, we had felt no need to fit this made-up holiday...
“Today is Father's Day. Until my stroke, we had felt no need to fit this made-up holiday into our emotional calendar. But today we spend...
Gail Buckley
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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,...
Gail Buckley
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I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe
“I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a friend, a Balthus painting on...
Gail Buckley
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Mysterious paradox: time, motionless here, gallops out there...
“Mysterious paradox: time, motionless here, gallops out there. In my contracted world, the hours drag on but the months flash by.” -...
Gail Buckley
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My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly...
“My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space...
Gail Buckley
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