“Whatever the circumstances of a child’s early life & whatever the history and current state of that child, every human has the built-in power to improve, to change for the better, to significantly restore and often to recover. Tomorrow, that person you see in the mirror can be a stronger, more capable, livelier, more powerfully centered and still-growing person.” - Dr Michael Merzenich. Soft-Wired: How the new science of brain plasticity can change your life.