The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain. Conventio…

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