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Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was created with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow-moving, obstinate - or worse. As a kid, she read and had written everything backward, battled to process principles in language, regularly got lost, and was actually uncoordinated. She will make no sense of an analogue time clock. But by relying on her formidable storage area and flat iron will, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced after research that influenced her to invent cognitive exercises to "fix" her own brain. The Girl Who Changed Her Brain interweaves her personal tale with riveting circumstance histories from her more than thirty years of working with both children and people. Recent discoveries in neuroscience have conclusively demonstrated that, by engaging in certain mental tasks or activities, we actually change the composition of our brains - from the skin cells themselves to the contacts between cells. The capability of nerve skin cells to change is known as neuroplasticity, and Arrowsmith-Young has been putting it into practice for decades. With great inventiveness, after merging two lines of research, Barbara developed abnormal cognitive calisthenics that radically increased the working of her weakened brain areas to normal and, in some areas, even above-normal levels. She drew on her behalf intellectual strengths to determine what types of drills were required to target the specific nature of her learning problems, and she were able to overcome her cognitive deficits. Starting in the late 1970s, she's continued to broaden and refine these exercises, that have benefited a large number of individuals. Barbara founded Arrowsmith School in Toronto in 1980 and then your Arrowsmith Program to teach teachers and also to implement this impressive methodology in academic institutions all over North America. Her work is unveiled among the first examples of neuroplasticity's extensive and practical application. The theory that self-improvement can occur in the brain has now found fire. The Girl Who Changed Her Brain powerfully and poignantly illustrates how the lives of children and people fighting learning disorders can be significantly transformed. This amazing book by an excellent pathbreaker deepens our knowledge of how the brain works and of the brain's serious impact about how we participate in the globe. Our brains form us, but this reserve offers clear and hopeful proof the corollary: we can form our brains.

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