Search Results: Returned 8 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 8
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1999., Vintage Books Call No: PSYCHOLOGY NF SAC Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case studies.
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-- Do not think about monkeysÃ1992., Hope Press Call No: PSYCHOLOGY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of fifteen stories written by people with Tourette syndrome.
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Ã2012., Large Print Press a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Call No: PSYCHOLOGY NF SAC Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations; traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness.
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1998., Simon & Schuster Call No: HI-INT 616.8 SAC Edition: 1st Touchstone ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.".
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1998., Simon & Schuster Call No: PSYCHOLOGY Edition: 1st Touchstone ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected.
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2011, c2010., Vintage Books Call No: PSYCHOLOGY NF SAC Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A discussion on vision that describes six case studies with individuals who have had their sight compromised and examines the many ways that the human brain perceives the world, our abilities to see in three dimensions, how the mind sees the world when our eyes are closed, and related topics.
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2015., Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Vintage Bks. ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Neurologist Oliver Sacks recounts his life, including his obsession with motorcycles, his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual, his relationship with his patients and more.
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2002, c2001., Vintage Books Call No: SCIENCE Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Neurologist and storyteller Oliver Sacks recalls his childhood fascination for numbers, metals, and natural patterns, and tells how he was encouraged by his Uncle Dave, a lightbulb manufacturer known as "Uncle Tungsten," to investigate the mysteries of chemistry.