
80 Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?
Inquiring Minds
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Is Electroconvulsive Therapy Effective for Autism?
"There are a lot of bits of information out there that are not based on science about treatments that might help and especially in those kinds of populations where you have emotions and vulnerable patients i worry sometimes that people can take what we don't understand and run with it and give people false hope" "I'm very very clear at the beginning of my book that replacing the neurological nihilism which i deal with every day if people have been told that they couldn't get better and yet i see these patients get better" 'We now have a new model of autism which in some ways was very influenced by the parents because they were with the kids all the time'
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