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For years, scientists described the human brain as a machine with parts, each part dedicated to controlling different activities. If a part was injured, the function it controlled would be lost permanently. But as Norman Doidge shows in his new book, The Brain that Changes Itself, (Viking) new neurological evidence has emerged showing that the brain can be trained to rewire itself after an injury, such as a stroke or ear or eye damage. Through interviews with neuroscientists and neuron-rehabilitation patients, Doidge also finds that the brain is capable of improving learning disabilities and its intellectual and even moral performance through techniques such as repetition of learning and implementation of regular habits.

Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher on the research faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry.

Hudson Institute invites you to a discussion of Doidge’s work and its implications. Hudson Institute Senior Fellow John O’Sullivan will introduce the event. Senior Fellow Ronald Dworkin, author of Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class (Carroll & Graf) will comment on Doidge’s findings. Question and answer to follow. Both books will be available for purchase.

To RSVP (acceptances only), please email name and affiliation to Ioannis Saratsis at isaratsis@hudson.org.

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Room
Hudson Institute
1015 15th St, NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005