| Title: | Film Screening: The Brain that Changes Itself |
| Date/Time: | 3/9/2011 12:00 - 1:00 pm
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| Registration: | Class is full.
To be added to the waiting list, please contact Thelma Mack.
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| Building: | Hunton Student Center TML Learning Center, Room 209 |
| Cost: | $0
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| Sponsor: | VCU Libraries |
| Audience: |
General Public
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| Category: | Audio/Video |
| Description: | The human brain, as we are now quickly learning, has a remarkable ability to change itself - to rewire itself. Based upon the best-selling book by Toronto psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Norman Doidge, this documentary presents a strong case for reconsidering how we view the human brain. Dr. Doidge travels throughout North America to meet some of the pioneering researchers who made revolutionary discoveries about the plasticity of the brain. He also visits with the people who have been most affected by this research - the patients whose lives have forever been changed - people once thought of as incurable who are now living normal lives. Known in scientific circles as "neuroplasticity", this radical new approach to the brain yields spectacular results in bringing the human brain back to life. |
| Contact: | Thelma Mack 8-0017 mackta@vcu.edu |
