Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury

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Books

Bauby, J. (1997). The diving bell and the butterfly. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Bauby suffered a stroke that left him nearly completely paralyzed. He composed this book by using eye blinks to signal the letters one by one and is a testimony to the powerful drive of communication.

Fishman, S. (1988). A bomb in the brain: A heroic tale of science, surgery and survival. New York: Scribner. The author recounts his personal battle with a brain hemorrhage, neurosurgery, and epilepsy.

Gardner, H. (1974). The shattered mind. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Gardner describes his purpose in writing this book: "to demonstrate that a host of critical issues in psychology can be illuminated by a thoughtful study of the behavior and testimony of brain damaged individuals." He addresses aphasia, alexia, and memory impairment.

Klawans, H. L. (1989). Toscanini's tumble and other tales of clinical neurology. New York: Bantam Books. A neurologist discusses what he learned from patients about neurological disorders any how people contend with them.

Klawans, H. L. (1990). Newton's madness. New York: Harper and Row. Continuing beyond his book, Toscanini's tumble, Klawans describes patients with a variety of neurological disorders.

Laplante, E. (1993) Seized. New York: Harper Collins. The author shares insights into temporal lobe epilepsy as a medical, historical, and artistic phenomenon. The three people with this disorder include a corporate executive, a small-town attorney, and a prison inmate and mental patient.

Martin, R. (1986). Matters gray and white: A neurologist, his patients and the mysteries of the brain. New York: Henry Holt and Co. The author uses clinical experiences to tell about the practice of neurology, how neurological disorders affect people, and what these disorders reveal about the brain.

Miller, B & Conn, C. P. (1980). Kathy. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company. .(ISBN # 0-8007-1093-2).

Noonan, D. (1989). Neuro- (Life on the front lines of brain surgery and neurological medicine). New York: Simon and Schuster. A neurologist is followed as he diagnoses and treats disorders. Noonan shares the doctor and patients' perspectives with personal insights and graphic information on diagnosis and treatment.

Sacks, O. (1970). The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales. New York: Summit Books. Sacks describes his experiences with a variety of patient with wonderment and affection. The cases include individuals with sensory agnosia, aphasia, autistic savant syndromes, Tourette's syndrome, etc.

Sacks, O. (1990). Awakenings. New York: Harper Perennial. Sacks describes the results of L-Dopa medication given to people afflicted with parkinsonism resulting from a kind of sleeping sickness that often results in catatonic states. L-Dopa first seemed like a miracle, but for many, the miracle dissolved into disappointment and frustration.

Sacks, O. (1995). An anthropologist on Mars. New York: Vintage Books. Sacks examines the lives of a colorblind painter, a man with frontal lobe syndrome, a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, a man with visual agnosia, an autistic savant, and a woman who has overcome many consequences of autism.

Sylvester, E. J. (1993). The healing blade: A tale of neurosurgery. New York: Simon and Schuster. This journalistic account, is mostly about a neurological institute in Phoenix, a neurosurgeon named Dr. Robert Spetzler, and. descriptions of surgical procedures and the surgeons who perform them.

Movies

Awakenings
Mask
My Left Foot

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