80: Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on faculty at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry, and Research Faculty at  Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York.

On the show this week we talk to Doidge about neuroplasticity—once you reach adulthood, is your brain in some kind of fixed state, or does it keep changing? And can you do things to make it change?

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