Injured Brains of Medical Minds

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'.

• 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