Author: DynamicBrain Inc.
Publication: Monthly Newsletter
Published Date: September 19 2012

Did you know that George Bach-y-Rita, a medical student in Mexico, taught his father Pedro, who had suffered a massive stroke at age sixty five with his face and half of his body paralyzed, to go from crawling, to moving on his knees, to standing up, and to walking; just like a baby? Within 12 months, Pedro Bach-y-Rita, a professor of Spanish at the City University in New York was back teaching full-time in his old job!
From the book The Brain That Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge, M.D.

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