Quotes from Norman Doidge

Though I did not write about neurofeedback in detail, I trained in it, and learned an immense amount about changing the brain from these neurofeedback scientists and clinicians, in supervision, in courses or through their writings: John Finnick, Moshe Perl, Sebern Fisher, Ed Hamlin, Lynda Thompson, Michael Thompson, Len Ochs, and Jaclyn Gisburne.

Naeser, a research professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, had done studies using lasers for stroke and paralysis and was one of several pioneers using "laser acupuncture" by placing light on acupuncture points.

Posit Science,

He has repeatedly shown that by explaining neurological "oddities," he can shed light on the functioning of normal brains. "I hate crowds in science," he tells me. He doesn't fancy large scientific meetings either. "I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don't polish the brass on the bandwagon." Beginning

I have a disdain," he says, "for complicated fancy equipment because it takes a lot of time to learn how to use, and I'm suspicious when the distance between the raw data and the final conclusion is too long. It gives you plenty of opportunity to massage that data, and human beings are notoriously susceptible to self-deception, whether scientists or not." Ramachandran

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Tallal's research showed that children with language disabilities have auditory processing problems with common consonant-vowel combinations that are spoken quickly and are called "the fast parts of speech." The children have trouble hearing them accurately and, as a result, reproducing them accurately.

civilization will always be a tenuous affair that must be taught in each generation and is always, at most, one generation deep.

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