Try free for 30 days
-
The Brain that Changes Itself
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $31.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
- And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
- By: Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
- Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense of an analogue clock. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to “fix” her own brain.
-
-
Fantastic
- By Anonymous User on 10-02-2020
-
The Power of Neuroplasticity
- By: Shad Helmstetter PhD
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In The Power of Neuroplasticity, Shad Helmstetter, PhD, presents the scientific discovery that the thoughts we think physically rewire and reshape our brains and change our lives. Dr. Helmstetter shows how to use the latest research from the field of neuroscience to wire your brain to change attitudes, overcome negativity, improve health and fitness, reach personal goals, increase mental sharpness and clarity, improve usable IQ, super-charge your thinking, and reshape your life, all with neuroscience on your side.
-
-
Lots of pseudoscience
- By Anonymous User on 22-12-2023
-
The Mind and the Brain
- Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
- By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now in paperback, Dr Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley's groundbreaking work, The Mind and the Brain, argues exactly the opposite: that the mind has a life of its own. Dr Schwartz, a leading researcher in brain dysfunctions, and Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley demonstrate that the human mind is an independent entity that can shape and control the functioning of the physical brain.
-
-
Great Insightful book on how the brain works
- By Luca on 28-01-2018
-
The Long COVID Handbook
- By: Gez Medinger, Professor Danny Altmann
- Narrated by: Gez Medinger, Professor Danny Altmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Reports suggest that over 100m people around the world are living with Long COVID (more than 1.5m in the UK) yet reliable, clear information and guidance remains scarce. This book is the definitive guide to understanding, managing and treating the condition. Written by the world's leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann and expert patient Gez Medinger, The Long COVID Handbook translates cutting-edge science, patient-led research and practical guidance with clarity.
-
-
Excellent Resource for data on Long Covid
- By Glynis Gillott on 11-12-2022
-
How Emotions Are Made
- The Secret Life of the Brain
- By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.
-
-
Groundbraking, but useless
- By J on 14-11-2021
-
A Thousand Brains
- A New Theory of Intelligence
- By: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.
-
-
Immensely exciting
- By Kaleb Peters on 14-03-2021
-
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
- And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
- By: Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
- Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense of an analogue clock. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to “fix” her own brain.
-
-
Fantastic
- By Anonymous User on 10-02-2020
-
The Power of Neuroplasticity
- By: Shad Helmstetter PhD
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In The Power of Neuroplasticity, Shad Helmstetter, PhD, presents the scientific discovery that the thoughts we think physically rewire and reshape our brains and change our lives. Dr. Helmstetter shows how to use the latest research from the field of neuroscience to wire your brain to change attitudes, overcome negativity, improve health and fitness, reach personal goals, increase mental sharpness and clarity, improve usable IQ, super-charge your thinking, and reshape your life, all with neuroscience on your side.
-
-
Lots of pseudoscience
- By Anonymous User on 22-12-2023
-
The Mind and the Brain
- Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
- By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now in paperback, Dr Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley's groundbreaking work, The Mind and the Brain, argues exactly the opposite: that the mind has a life of its own. Dr Schwartz, a leading researcher in brain dysfunctions, and Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley demonstrate that the human mind is an independent entity that can shape and control the functioning of the physical brain.
-
-
Great Insightful book on how the brain works
- By Luca on 28-01-2018
-
The Long COVID Handbook
- By: Gez Medinger, Professor Danny Altmann
- Narrated by: Gez Medinger, Professor Danny Altmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Reports suggest that over 100m people around the world are living with Long COVID (more than 1.5m in the UK) yet reliable, clear information and guidance remains scarce. This book is the definitive guide to understanding, managing and treating the condition. Written by the world's leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann and expert patient Gez Medinger, The Long COVID Handbook translates cutting-edge science, patient-led research and practical guidance with clarity.
-
-
Excellent Resource for data on Long Covid
- By Glynis Gillott on 11-12-2022
-
How Emotions Are Made
- The Secret Life of the Brain
- By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.
-
-
Groundbraking, but useless
- By J on 14-11-2021
-
A Thousand Brains
- A New Theory of Intelligence
- By: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.
-
-
Immensely exciting
- By Kaleb Peters on 14-03-2021
-
The Happiness Trap
- How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
- By: Russ Harris
- Narrated by: Russ Harris
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dr. Russ Harris provides a means to escape the epidemic of stress, anxiety, and depression, unlocking the secrets to a truly fulfilling life. Updated and expanded by 50 percent in its second edition, this empowering book presents the insights and techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), covering more topics and providing more practical tools than ever before.
-
-
Very Insightful Stuff
- By N.B on 03-01-2023
-
Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
- Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
- By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Jeffrey M. Schwartz
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An estimated five million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over. Traditionally OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 percent of people treated don't respond to it, and when the pills stop, the symptoms invariably return.
-
-
recommend
- By Amazon Customer on 22-02-2019
-
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
- Healing the Social Brain, Third Edition
- By: Louis Cozolino
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master at synthesizing neuroscientific information and demonstrating how it applies to psychotherapy practice. New material on altruism, executive function, trauma, and change round out this essential book.
-
Trauma-Proofing Your Kids
- A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience
- By: Peter A. Levine, Maggie Kline
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The number of anxious, depressed, hyperactive, and withdrawn children is staggering—and still growing! Millions have experienced bullying, violence (real or in the media), abuse, or sexual molestation. Many other kids have been traumatized from more “ordinary” ordeals such as terrifying medical procedures, accidents, loss, and divorce. Trauma-Proofing Your Kids sends a lifeline to parents who wonder how they can help their worried and troubled children now.
-
Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve
- Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
- By: Stanley Rosenberg, Benjamin Shield - foreword
- Narrated by: Derek Botten
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This practical guide to understanding the cranial nerves as the key to our psychological and physical well-being builds on Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory - one of the most important recent developments in human neurobiology. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience as a craniosacral therapist and Rolfer, Stanley Rosenberg explores the crucial role that the vagus nerve plays in determining our psychological and emotional states and explains that a myriad of common psychological and physical symptoms.
-
-
Excellent resource for practitioners.
- By Katarzyna De Jesus on 07-06-2019
-
Neuropsychology
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrated by: Jane Branch
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Explore how it is we are able to express and understand emotions; acquire and use language; learn, remember, and plan; and how consciousness and unconscious experiences are shaped by the brain. Build a foundation of biological knowledge, understand the functions of various areas of the brain, and learn how these relate to developmental disorders and mental health problems, as well as the effects of brain damage.
-
The Resilience Shield
- By: Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk, Tim Curtis
- Narrated by: Ben Pronk, Dr Dan Pronk, Tim Curtis
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Life is hard. Rocketing rates of physical and mental health issues are testimony to the immense pressures of our complex world. So how do we become tough and adaptable to face life's challenges? The Resilience Shield provides that defence. In their groundbreaking guide to overcoming adversity, Australian SAS veterans Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk DSC and Tim Curtis take you behind the scenes of special operations missions, into the boardrooms of leading companies and through the depths of contemporary research in order to demystify and define resilience.
-
-
Very pleasantly surprised
- By DownTime on 13-12-2021
-
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy
- Bringing the Body into Treatment
- By: David Emerson, Jennifer West - foreword PhD
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When treating a client who has suffered from interpersonal trauma - whether chronic childhood abuse or domestic violence, for example - talk therapy isn't always the most effective course. For these individuals, the trauma and its effects are so entrenched, so complex, that reducing their experience to a set of symptoms or suggesting a change in cognitive frame or behavioral pattern ignores a very basic but critical player: the body.
-
The Biology of Belief
- Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles
- By: Bruce H. Lipton PhD
- Narrated by: Mr. Jeffrey Hedquist
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What if we held within our minds the potential to transform our personal lives and the collective life of our species? In this unabridged audio of the updated and expanded 10th-anniversary edition of the book, you’ll learn how to turn the immense power of your subconscious into your most valuable tool for health, well-being, and much more.
-
-
Life Changing
- By Karla on 10-11-2023
-
Why Does It Still Hurt?
- How the Power of Knowledge Can Overcome Chronic Pain
- By: Dr Paul Biegler
- Narrated by: Grant Piro
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Research over the last few decades shows that many of us – sufferers of chronic pain and health practitioners alike – are victims of a trick of the nervous system. Where we believe that pain has its root in a damaged body, it is the brain that prolongs the hurting after the body has healed. Paul Biegler, a science journalist and former doctor who has been on his own pain journey, investigates the true source of chronic pain – our brain’s so-called neuroplasticity – and emerging therapies that take advantage of that neuroplasticity to rewire the brain and end the suffering.
-
-
Life changing
- By Anonymous User on 20-04-2023
-
Operation Paperclip
- The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the chaos following World War II, the US government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder and slavery.
-
-
Great book overall
- By Mr Peter Brennan on 19-06-2019
-
The Field
- By: Lynne McTaggart
- Narrated by: Lynne McTaggart
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Based on interviews with today's cutting-edge scientists, investigative journalist Lynne McTaggart wrote The Field, a compelling presentation of the theory that there is a measurable "life force" in the universe. Now, in this original audio adaptation by the author, McTaggart takes listeners on a journey into this exciting arena of science, called the "Zero-Point Field", that could be the key to understanding "supernatural" forces, healing energy, and the nature of consciousness.
-
-
Incredible
- By Anonymous User on 08-07-2023
Publisher's Summary
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age.
In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed.
Critic Reviews
More from the same
What listeners say about The Brain that Changes Itself
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Rowan
- 27-08-2017
Fascinating - if a little morally questionable
This is a great read. I was a little surprised and disappointed that a man as intelligent as Doidge seems totally nonplussed about the fairly egregious ethical violations described in this book in relation to animal welfare of test subjects. Stapling kittens eyes shut and stitching body parts of monkeys together is obviously shaky moral ground to say the least and at least some measure of representation for PETA's argument (as awful as they are) in a non sarcastic or dismissive manner was lacking in my opinion. This is a fascinating read though and a must for understanding our most powerful organ.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
10 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- clare
- 08-07-2017
enlightening!
Everyone whether they're interested in Neuroplasticity for themselves or someone else, or not, needs to read this book. People need to start understanding the power of their brain and start looking for programs which will help them get their lives back. Complacency is not an excuse, when access to this kind of educational material is so easily available. MCS, CFSME, Fibro, all these things are a Limbic System injury, which is making the body sick, this injury/illness can be fixed.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Christaki
- 28-10-2019
An important book but it didn’t give any how-to’s
The book could have been so much better. I believe it’s concepts are important but it was more about the history and development of brain plasticity than the background followed by exercises, which is what I was hoping for.
Personally I found the reader genuine but dull.
I can recommend the subject matter but not this book by an important contributor to the science.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Simbah142
- 17-04-2019
Be careful what you feed your mind
The nature of the mind is both ridged and perfect able. The mind adaptive to input and what you feed it will take physical form in the hardwiring of your brain.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- M
- 30-10-2023
Narration is painful
I don't think I've ever heard a real person who sounds so close to an AI voice before. It makes the book very hard to listen to.
Some interesting parts but be prepared for some cheerfully presented gruesome animal testing stories.
I suspect this book would be better in written form - you could more easily skip the parts you weren't interested in and wouldn't have to listen to that awful droning, grating voice.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Kate L.
- 04-10-2022
inspirational
inspiration
l. gives hope to those like me with acquired brain injury. great telling of this title
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- W. Stephens
- 14-11-2020
The explanation of the brain and behaviours in layman’s terms
Interesting to know that there is strong competition for vacated neuron space
And that the left side of the brain can take over functions of the right and vice versa.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 01-01-2020
WOW
I love every bit of this book. This must be among my top 10 books of all time.
Well researched.
Thank you, Dr Doidge, for this masterpiece.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Lori
- 14-08-2019
Great examples, but needed more
Unfortunately this book didn't give much insight into how to change a brain, but it gave very interesting examples of what can be done.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Michael H
- 20-04-2019
Brilliant and eye opening
Too many people think the human brain is fixed, this book clearly shows, through remarkable examples that the brain can heal and grow.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!