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

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'.