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Beschreibung

True neurological mysteries from the consulting room.

A man sees cartoon characters running across the room. A teenager comes home with inexplicably torn clothes. One girl's world becomes Alice in Wonderland; another collapses like a ragdoll whenever she thinks about moving.

For neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan, such symptoms are clues. Brainstorm follows patients whose experiences are so unusual that diagnosis becomes a form of detective work, requiring close attention to tiny details of behaviour, sensation and memory.

Feelings of déjà vu can point towards the hippocampus; apparently unrelated movements or fears can lead a neurologist towards particular regions and processes in the brain. O'Sullivan takes readers through that reasoning while never losing sight of the people whose lives depend on getting the diagnosis right.

Written by the bestselling, prizewinning author of It's All in Your Head, Sleeping Beauties and The Age of Diagnosis, this is a journey through neurological medicine and the extraordinary variety of human experience, showing how much the brain can reveal precisely when it begins to behave strangely.

'I loved it. She is in my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks' Sathnam Sanghera

True neurological mysteries from the consulting room.

A man sees cartoon characters running across the room. A teenager comes home with inexplicably torn clothes. One girl's world becomes Alice in Wonderland; another collapses like a ragdoll whenever she thinks about moving.

For neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan, such symptoms are clues. Brainstorm follows patients whose experiences are so unusual that diagnosis becomes a form of detective work, requiring close attention to tiny details of behaviour, sensation and memory.

Feelings of déjà vu can point towards the hippocampus; apparently unrelated movements or fears can lead a neurologist towards particular regions and processes in the brain. O'Sullivan takes readers through that reasoning while never losing sight of the people whose lives depend on getting the diagnosis right.

Written by the bestselling, prizewinning author of It's All in Your Head, Sleeping Beauties and The Age of Diagnosis, this is a journey through neurological medicine and the extraordinary variety of human experience, showing how much the brain can reveal precisely when it begins to behave strangely.

'I loved it. She is in my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks' Sathnam Sanghera

Über den Autor
Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. She specialises in the investigation of complex epilepsy and also has an active interest in psychogenic disorders.Suzanne's book about psychosomatic illness, It's All in Your Head, won both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology Book Prize.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Andere Fachgebiete
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781784704995
ISBN-10: 1784704997
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 727719
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: O'Sullivan, Suzanne
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 132 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Suzanne O'Sullivan
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2019
Gewicht: 0,28 kg
Artikel-ID: 115096749

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