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This Doctor Made a Blind Man See and an Autistic Boy Speak

An 80-year-old woman with Parkinson’s pops a small neurostimulator on her tongue and two weeks later starts walking. Soon she’s balancing on a table, painting the ceiling.

Thanks to listening therapy, an autistic 3-year-old stops screaming and starts talking. A modified mix of Mozart, Gregorian chant and his mother’s voice stimulated dormant brain circuits.

The radical therapies that transform lives of little hope are vividly described by Norman Doidge, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, in his book The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity. http://www.amazon.com/The-Brains-Way-Healing-Neuroplasticity/dp/067002550X

by Manuela Hoelterhoff

Full Story: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/this-doctor-made-a-blind-man-see-and-an-autistic-boy-speak

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