Product Description

Discover how your brain is physically changed by what you do and think. How education moulds your brain, growing new connections between brain cells, building brain power, and proving it's not all down to genetics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16244 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 316 pages

From the Author
What you do, feel and think physically changes your brain.
What you do and think physically changes your brain. You have the ability - literally - to remake yourself. As a human being, you are unique in the created world in being able to shrug off some of the biological shackles imposed by evolution. There is an awesome freedom for human minds. In Mind Sculpture , I describe a scientific revolution in our understanding of how the brain is moulded by experience right into old age. In so doing, I point to the untapped potential that exists in all human brains. Here are some key points from Mind Sculpture:

* Your brain is physically changed by what you do, see, feel and think

* You can become physically stronger from the comfort of your armchair by carrying out mental exercises in your imagination

* Such mental practice physically changes your brain

* Education physically moulds the brain, growing new connections between brain cells

* Education builds brain power - it's not all down to genes.

* The more education in your life that you have, the less likely you are to suffer from dementia in old age.

* Talking to babies builds their intelligence

* Teaching children to read properly physically changes their brains

* Severe fear and stress can cause brain cells to shrink or even die.

* Learning to play a musical instrument as a child enlarges the left side of your brain and improves your memory

* Keeping mentally active as you get older keeps your brain working better

* Love grows the brain

Ian Robertson Professor of Psychology Trinity College Dublin Ireland

From the Back Cover
Accessible and compelling, Mind Sculpture explains the consequences for how we understand the brain and how we perceive ourselves.

In the last decade, new research has demonstrated that the brain is shaped by our experience of the world around us. As one of the world's leading authorities on brain rehabilitation, Ian Robertson is uniquely placed to explore these groundbreaking discoveries, which challenges the currently fashionable view that mental ability is predestined from birth.

Discover how:

Your brain is physically changed by what you do and think.

Education moulds your brain, growing new connections between brain cells, building brain power - it's not all down to genes.

Talking to babies builds their intelligence.

Severe fear and stress can cause brain cells to shrink and even die.

Love makes the brain grow.

About the Author
Ian Robertson
Ian Robertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. Formerly a scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Hughes Hall, he is also Visiting Professor at University College, London, with a further appointment in Toronto. One of the world's leading researchers on brain rehabilitation, he has published numerous scholarly books and scientific papers on the subject.

Customer Reviews

Exceptionally good insight into how the mind works
The book that taught me 'What wires together fires together'. Since reading this I have read many 'mind' type books - this remains one of my favourite. Very well written and understandable. Recommended to anyone interested in the mind, from layman to would-be psychotherapist.

A PMA book that discusses the mechanics, not the theory
I am eager to buy good PMA books - but there is such a lot to choose from on the bookshelves these days....and not all are good reading. This weekend I browsed the shelves of Stansted Airport's bookshop and noticed Mind Scultpture. Intrigued by the text on the rear cover, I bought it...and haven't put it down since. Mind Sculpture is a fascinating insight into what actually makes us tick. It explains things like why "what the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve" (Napolean Hill). I have a 7 month old baby boy, and Mind Sculpture gave me a new perspective on what's going to go on in this little guy's mind as he grows and learns. Fascinating book, especially if you want to understand the mechanics of our brains rather than the theory behind PMA.