http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/15/sunday/main1209916.shtml

Retraining The Brain
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Jan. 15, 2006
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 (CBS/AP)


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"It's crucial that this science be brought out of the laboratory into the world
to help people and the need is massive. That's what this is all about."

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Dr. Michael Merzenich
neuroscientist
 
 
(CBS) It is hard to tell by watching her, but 4-year old Harper Thomas is
participating in what may be a medical revolution. So are Betty and Ernie Radez,
aged 87 and 85, respectively. 

All three are using cutting edge therapies to rewire their brains. Treating
serious medical conditions with neither drugs nor surgery. 

"Everybody thinks that the answers to the ills of humankind lie with
pharmacology, gene therapy or stem cells, right?" asks neuroscientist Dr.
Michael Merzenich. 


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