the brain remodels itself throughout life, and that it retains the capacity to change itself as the result not only of passively experienced factors such as enriched environments, but also of changes in the ways we behave and the ways we think.… Nor is there any question that every treatment that exploits the power of the mind to change the brain involves arduous effort—by patients afflicted by stroke or depression, by Tourette or OCD—to improve both their functional capacity and their brain function.”8 Arduous effort is also required on the part of any addict—all the more since her
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