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Injured Brains of Medical Minds
Views from Within
Edited by Narinder Kapur
442 pages
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photographs, line figures and tables
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240x168mm
978-0-19-852144-0
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Hardback
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28 November 1996
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- Brings together more than 50 personal stories published over 120 years
- A very readable introduction to the field of Neuropsychology
- Examines each account in the light of current theories of brain pathology
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.Readership: Students and professionals in cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, neurology, and psychiatry.
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Edited by Narinder Kapur, Professor, Southampton General Hospital
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"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'." - World Neurology, vol.12, no.2
"the work is beautifully presented, and the occasional illustrations pertinent throughout. ... What is impressive is the personal narrative, and the great courage shown by these authors." - British Medical Journal, vol.315, August 1997
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Chapter 1 - Memory disorders
M. Meltzer: Poor memory: a case report
H.L. Klawans: Did I remove that gallbladder?
M.J. Morgan: Looking after a patient with Alzheimer's disease
Dr. X.: Busman's holiday: Clinical interview
Chapter 2 - Language disorders
F.W. Andrewes: On being bereft of speech
R.H. Rose: A physician's account of his aphasia
W. Riese: Auto-observation of aphasia
C.S. Moss: Notes from an aphasiac psychologist, or different strokes for different folks
C.S. Moss: The accident and the ensuing six months
C.S. Moss: Recovery at twelve months
C.S. Moss: Two years later
M.H. Ashcraft: A personal case history of transcient anomia
Chapter 3 - Visual disorders
Patterns of cerebral integration indicated by the scotomas of migraine
K. Mize: Visual hallucinations following viral encephalitis: a self report
Recovery from occipital stroke: a self-report and an inquiry into visual processes
D.B. Boles: Visual field effects of classical migraine
Chapter 4 - Parkinson's disease
Anonymous: Parkinsonism
C. Todes: Inside Parkinsonism ... A psychiatrist's personal experience
C. Todes: Somatopsychic
J. Doe: Alleviation of severe emotional symptoms by Carbidopa - Levodopa, MSD, in a Parkinson's patient: A personal report
D.B. Hackell: Parkinson;s Disease
L.B. Guss: Parkinson's Disease
A.W.S. Thompson: On being a Parkinsonian
J. Williams: Parkinson's Disease: Doctors as Patients
Chapter 5 - Brain tumour
Anonymous: Cerebral Tumour
Anonymous: Pituitary Cyst
L. Arthur: An astrocytoma
J.A. McCool: In memory of a brain tumour
J.A. McCool: Brain tumour
C. Mainwaring: Life without a cerebellum
C. Mainwaring: Life without a cerebellum: update
Chapter 6 - Stroke
M. Buck: The language disorders
A. Brodal: Self-observations and neuro-anatomical considerations after a stroke
D. Kyle: Personal View
T.H. Howell: How my teaching about the management of stroke would change after my own
D. Goldberg: My experience had a famous name
P. Smithells: Personal account by a sufferer from a stroke
P. Medawar: Memoir of a thinking radish
F. Coulbrough: On the receiving end
Chapter 7 - Head injury
W.L. LaBaw: Thirty-three months of recovery from trauma: a subjective report
L.R. Freeman: Cerebral concussion
L.F. Marshall and R.M. Ruff: Neurosurgeon as victim
F.R. Linge: What does it feel like to be brain damaged?
F.R. Linge: Faith, hope, and love: non-traditional therapy in recovery from serious head injury, a personal account
A.E. Ostrum: Brain injury: a personal view
A.E. Ostrum: 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
Quaerens: A prognostic and therapeutic indication in epilepsy
J. Hughlings-Jackson: Case of epilepsy with tasting movements and "dreamy state" - very small patch of softening in the left uncinate gyrus
J.P. Darling: The story of my epilepsy: The fortunate fate of a stubborn fool
Anonymous (1952): Epilepsy
Anonymous (1977): Epilepsy
C. Morris: My life with epilepsy
J. Lisyak: Epilepsy in my life
K.R. Kaufman: Life with epilepsy: 1960-1992
K.R. Kaufman: To not be afraid
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