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title: What an AI agent reads on Dr. Doidge Norman · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/normandoidge.com/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on Dr. Doidge Norman

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [normandoidge.com](http://www.normandoidge.com/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

1,744

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Norman Doidge, MD · language en-GB. First 1,744 of 1,744 characters:

```
Norman Doidge, MD Home The Brain’s Way Of Healing Features and Interviews Reviews Excerpt The Brain That Changes Itself Features and Interviews Reviews Excerpt Bio Multimedia Media Appearances and Live Events Blog FAQ Newsletter & Speaking Inquiries Home The Brain’s Way Of Healing Features and Interviews Reviews Excerpt The Brain That Changes Itself Features and Interviews Reviews Excerpt Bio Multimedia Media Appearances and Live Events Blog FAQ Newsletter & Speaking Inquiries Available now Upcoming Lectures Dr. Doidge has been at work on a new book, and for this reason has been doing few lectures and media events. The book is now very advanced, and we will restart posting lectures and media appearances as his schedule opens up. The Brain That Changes Itself has sold over 1 million copies and is now in over 100 countries, and chosen by the Dana Brain Foundation’s Journal Cerebrum, from among the 30,000 books on the brain in English, as the best general book on the brain. It, and The Brain’s Way of Healing, are both New York Times Bestsellers, and #1 Bestsellers in Canada. The Brain That Changes Itself is the all-time bestselling science book in Australia. Of The Brain That Changes Itself… ‘An utterly wonderful book –without question one of the most important books about the brain you will ever read; yet it is beautifully written, immensely approachable, and full of humanity. Its message is one of hope: it is not just our brains that shape our thinking, but our thinking that, very definitely, shapes our brains.’ —Iain McGilchrist MA (Oxon), BM, FRCPsych, FRSA author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World © 2026 Norman Doidge, MD. Click here to follow me on Facebook
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

Everything here comes from fetching the homepage once as a crawler. The [report](https://directindex.org/r/normandoidge.com) turns it into a score and a list of fixes, with code to paste.

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```