With example after fascinating example, Dr. Norman Doidge shows how patients have overcome deficits caused by trauma, strokes, prenatal problems, and disease. The stories are as instructive as they are inspiring. — Barnes & Noble: From Our Editors

A riveting, essential book. Doidge covers an impressive amount of ground and is an expert guide, a sense of wonder always enriching his skill as an explicator of subject matter that in less able hands could be daunting or even impenetrable. These stories are most emotionally satisfying. Doidge addresses how cultural influences literally "shape" our brain. [And] it becomes clear that our response to the world around us is not only a social or psychological phenomenon, but often a lasting neurological process. — Montreal Gazette, Liam Durcan, MD, Neurologist & Novelist