How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young rebuilt her own brain

By artappraiser on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 2:55pm |

By Jon Henley, Guardian.co.uk, June 12, 2012

She realised that part of her brain was not functioning properly so she devised a series of cognitive exercises to develop it. The results changed her life – and now she has helped thousands of children with learning disabilities. [....]

Over the past five or six years, the educational psychology establishment has started to take more note of Arrowsmith-Young's work. Respected (and best-selling) psychiatrists and writers such as Norman Doidge and Oliver Sacks have praised her as a pioneer in the young, but immensely promising field of neuroplasticity. Her dream is for every child to undertake some cognitive work as early as five or six – to pick up, and correct, potential difficulties [....]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/12/barbara-arrowsmith-young-rebuilt-brain