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| Author | : Stanley B. Prusiner |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2014-04-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0300191146 |
The author, a 1997 recipient of the Noble Prize in medicine, describes the years he spent researching and demonstrating how the infectious proteins known as prions were responsible for brain diseases and how his theory has now become widely accepted in the science establishment.
| Author | : Luke Dittrich |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2016-08-11 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1448104688 |
In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. But it was a catastrophic failure, leaving Henry unable to create long-term memories. Scoville's grandson, Luke Dittrich, takes us on an astonishing journey through the history of neuroscience, from the first brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the New England asylum where his grandfather developed a taste for human experimentation. Dittrich's investigation confronts unsettling family secrets and reveals the dark roots of modern neuroscience, raising troubling questions that echo into the present day.
| Author | : Susannah Cahalan |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2012-11-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0141975350 |
'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions, hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted about her life, and who she was, was wiped out. Brain on Fire is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannah's psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition, thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others. Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. 'With eagle-eye precision and brutal honesty, Susannah Cahalan turns her journalistic gaze on herself as she bravely looks back on one of the most harrowing and unimaginable experiences one could ever face: the loss of mind, body and self. Brain on Fire is a mesmerizing story' -Mira Bartók, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Palace Susannah Cahalan is a reporter on the New York Post, and the recipient of the 2010 Silurian Award of Excellence in Journalism for Feature Writing. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, and is frequently picked up by the Daily Mail, Gawker, Gothamist, AOL and Yahoo among other news aggregrator sites.
| Author | : Clifton Crais |
| Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-05-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781468310177 |
An acclaimed scholar tackles his greatest historical puzzle yet--his own abused past and tortured memory
| Author | : Rosalind M. Ridley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : |
This book presents a clear and authoritative account of the prion diseases for the non-specialist. It deals with the history of scrapie in sheep, the spread of kuru through cannibalism in Papua New Guinea, BSE, which has killed 170,000 cattle in the UK, and the question of whether the newvariant form of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) results from eating BSE-infected meat. All aspects of the diseases are covered, including genetics, clinical aspects, laboratory research, epidemiology, and field studies. Accessibly written by authors who are leading researchers in the field, it is thefirst book to provide a scientifically accurate yet readable account of these topical diseases.
| Author | : Mira Bartok |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2011-08-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1439183325 |
A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion.
| Author | : Diana Gittins |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2006-10-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 113467063X |
This fascinating study presents a unique history of psychiatry in the twentieth century. It brings together the memories and narratives of over sixty patients and workers who lived, or were employed, in Severalls Psychiatric Hospital, Essex, UK. Personal accounts are contextualised both in relation to wider developments and issues in twentieth-century mental health, and in relation to policies and changes in the hospital itself. Organised around the theme of space and place, and drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative material, chapters deal with key areas such as gender divisions, power relations, patterns of admission and discharge, treatments, and the daily lives and routines of patients and nurses of both sexes.
| Author | : Petina Gappah |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2016-02-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0374714886 |
The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.
| Author | : Richard Rhodes |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2012-12-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1471104575 |
In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France -- and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new Afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest U.S. and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat.
| Author | : Wojciech Nowicki |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781940953588 |
Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer's conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel - and the uncomfortable tensions this desire creates - the narrator of Salki starts recounting tragic stories of his family's past, detailing their lives, struggles, and fears in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. In these pieces, he investigates various 'salkis' - attic rooms where memories and memorabilia are stored - real and metaphorical, investigating old documents to better understand the violence of recent times.
