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The Mind and the Brain

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz

  • FINISHED
  • Finished February 2023
  • First published 2002

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Schwartz, a psychiatrist who treats OCD, argues that mental effort can change brain function.   He uses his patients’ results and plasticity research to support the case that the mind is not just brain activity.