How Did You Come to Study the Brain?

Andrew Leves: I've been in this field for almost four decades now so that really does age me. In the 80s we were told the brain couldn't change and I had a couple of neuroscience professors that actually felt that hey you know this is maybe there's more to it. So my argument was what if I'm teaching them to compensate, why can't you teach them to direct their mind to actually change their brain? And she did some of the first research back in the 80s on neurofasticity. A nice story is one of her patients who was a very poor scholar she did not do well at school at all but then she had a co-exident terrible