Injured Brains of Medical Minds
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 1996
- ISBN 9780198521440
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages442 pages
- Size 248x175x30 mm
- Weight 937 g
- Language English
- Illustrations photographs, line figures and tables 0
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Short description:
This book is a fascinating collection of first-hand accounts of doctors and neuroscientists who have themselves been afflicted by a brain illness or injury. In addition to the intrinsic personal interest of the stories, the commentaries provided by Dr Kapur put the accounts in the context of current medical treatment. Injured Brains of Medical Minds makes an ideal introduction to the field of neuropsychology, and will be of interest to students and clinicians alike.
MoreLong description:
This book provides a unique perspective on what it is like to be brain-damaged, seen through the eyes of doctors or neurosurgeons who have themselves suffered a brain injury or brain illness. Each of the personal accounts, written over the past 120 years, is accompanied by a commentary written by the author which critically examines the experiences of the sufferer, relating them to current issues in clinical neurology and cognitive neuroscience. The author also provides an introduction to each contribution, and in a final overview chapter he combines the lessons learned from all the articles. Accounts from over 40 individuals cover a wide range of conditions including: memory disorders, lanaguage disorders, visual disorders, Parkinson's disease, stroke, brain tumour, head injury, and epilepsy.
This is an unusual book. ... This eclectic collection is unique and is worth consulting for its more informal insights into the 'Injured Brains of Medical Minds'.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - Memory disorders
Poor memory: a case report
Did I remove that gallbladder?
Looking after a patient with Alzheimer's disease
Busman's holiday: Clinical interview
Chapter 2 - Language disorders
On being bereft of speech
A physician's account of his aphasia
Auto-observation of aphasia
Notes from an aphasiac psychologist, or different strokes for different folks
The accident and the ensuing six months
Recovery at twelve months
Two years later
A personal case history of transcient anomia
Chapter 3 - Visual disorders
Patterns of cerebral integration indicated by the scotomas of migraine
Visual hallucinations following viral encephalitis: a self report
Recovery from occipital stroke: a self-report and an inquiry into visual processes
Visual field effects of classical migraine
Chapter 4 - Parkinson's disease
Parkinsonism
Inside Parkinsonism ... A psychiatrist's personal experience
Somatopsychic
Alleviation of severe emotional symptoms by Carbidopa - Levodopa, MSD, in a Parkinson's patient: A personal report
Parkinson;s Disease
Parkinson's Disease
On being a Parkinsonian
Parkinson's Disease: Doctors as Patients
Chapter 5 - Brain tumour
Cerebral Tumour
Pituitary Cyst
An astrocytoma
In memory of a brain tumour
Brain tumour
Life without a cerebellum
Life without a cerebellum: update
Chapter 6 - Stroke
The language disorders
Self-observations and neuro-anatomical considerations after a stroke
Personal View
How my teaching about the management of stroke would change after my own
My experience had a famous name
Personal account by a sufferer from a stroke
Memoir of a thinking radish
On the receiving end
Chapter 7 - Head injury
Thirty-three months of recovery from trauma: a subjective report
Cerebral concussion
Neurosurgeon as victim
What does it feel like to be brain damaged?
Faith, hope, and love: non-traditional therapy in recovery from serious head injury, a personal account
Brain injury: a personal view
The locked-in syndrome - comments from a survivor
Chapter 8 - Epilepsy
On a particular variety of epilepsy ("intellectual aura"), one case with symptoms of organic brain disease
A prognostic and therapeutic indication in epilepsy
Case of epilepsy with tasting movements and "dreamy state" - very small patch of softening in the left uncinate gyrus
The story of my epilepsy: The fortunate fate of a stubborn fool
Epilepsy
Epilepsy
My life with epilepsy
Epilepsy in my life
Life with epilepsy: 1960-1992
To not be afraid
