Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, (Paperback)

from DesertOwl

Fascinating subject, great research is covered. I give it 5 stars, yet have 2 complaints. The author sets up a false dichotemy of Brain versus Mind, but never discusses how one might measure & test these differences. She acts as if she is building up a case, but then dismisses the dichotomy, corr...

from bethlea

Excellent! The brain is never fixed - it is never too late to re-create yourself! Although there are drugs and procedures that can change the brain, how much better if people can be taught to change themselves from within.

from khandro

I found this to be a very fascinating account of the progression of the field of neuroscience, from a long-held view that the adult brain is "fixed" and "immutable" (as described by the Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Romon y Cajal in 1913) to the discovery that the brain is in fact quite plastic...

from Niecierpek

The book is a report from discussions held between Western scientists and the Dalai Lama at the latest (2004) Mind and Life Institute conference in Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama has his residence. The topic of the summit was neuroplasticity, or the brain's capacity to change. In each ch...

from podperson

Fascinating topic: how experience can sometimes radically change the brain, a departure from the conventional wisdom of neurological science. But the seemingly endless repeating of studies (even in the setting of an actual conversations with the Dalai Lama, maybe he should have written this book)...