A portrait of the brain / Adam Zeman.
In this book, the author, a neurologist, tells the stories of patients with a variety of neurological disorders, some familiar (epilepsy, chronic fatigue, stroke, memory loss), and others relatively mysterious (narcolepsy, chronic deja vu, compulsive fidgeting, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). Chapter by...
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New Haven [Conn.] ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Atom : I am tired
- Gene : don't fidget
- Protein : the light of dawn
- Organelle : metamorphoses
- Neuron : lost in translation
- Synapse : Dr Gelineau's dream
- Neural network : the sense of pre-existence
- Lobe : the art of losing
- Psyche : betrayal
- Sou l: the anatomy of the soul
- Epilogue : O magnum mysterium.