Norman Doidge on Brain Plasticity
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08.31.2008
Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher at the University of Toronto, and author of "The Brain that Changes Itself." He tells Anne Strainchamps about so-called "wobblers" - people whose balance mechanism in the brain has been destroyed and how the brain can rewire itself to repair all kinds of damage.




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Epigenetics
When Doidge mentions addiction, and in some instances of mental health, such as depression, what is changing in the brain is epigenetics, the coding of chromatin proteins associated with DNA, where they may be activated or silenced.
I'm not clear that this has anything to do with plasticity.
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