Intertwined. How to induce neuroplasticity.

What do these have in common? A soprano who can’t sing from a printed score, a
violoncellist who can’t keep from crying while playing, a woman who can walk
backwards but not forwards, a man who can’t move his hands unless he’s playing
the violin, a priest who can’t say the words “you” or “we”, eyes that close, a
dancer’s legs that refuse to dance, and a magician’s hands that move on their
own.

In this book, Dr. Farias shows how patients affected by a wide variety of
disorders like writer's cramp, task-specific tremors, focal dystonia or
perceptive illusions are trapped within the functioning of their own brains,
which is producing illusions, leading them to display rigid behaviors and
repetitive movements and thoughts.

Every illusion has some bug or incoherency. When the patients are conscious of
the errors in their illusions, the illusion breaks inducing a neuroplastic
change that allows restored functional movement.

By the way of insight, attention, awareness, imagination, movement and
persistence, the patients whose cases are described in this book were able to
break the illusion that was shackling them and reconstruct a new, accurate
perception and proper function.

Intertwined . How to induce neuroplasticity, defines how to treat these
disorders through a different lens, considering patients as individuals with
distinct background experiences and special needs.

Intertwined is full of exercises, fMRI images and statistics that show how
imagination, feelings, memories and movements can actually change the way our
brain functions.

This book sets a new and hopeful paradigm in the study of some disorders,
which have, until now, been considered intractable disorders.

This is the book that all patients must read and all practitioners should
have.

Are you living in a loop? It is time to break it.