Disturbances of the mind / Douwe Draaisma ; translated by Barbara Fasting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Draaisma, D., author.

Contributor:

Fasting, Barbara, translator.

Standardized Title:

Ontregelde geesten. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nervous system--Diseases--History.

Nervous system.

Brain--Diseases--History.

Brain.

Neurology--Research.

Neurology.

Brain--Research.

Neurologists.

Psychiatrists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sergei Korsakoff, Alois Alzheimer, James Parkinson, Hans Asperger and other eminent scientists, are all names which have become synonymous with a disease, a syndrome, or an autistic disorder. Although the names of these psychiatrists and neurologists are familiar, we often know little about the individuals themselves and the circumstances surrounding their discoveries. What exactly did they discover, and who were their patients? Douwe Draaisma expertly reconstructs the lives of these and eight other 'names' from the science of mind and brain. Disturbances of the Mind provides a fascinating, illuminating, and at times touching insight into the history of brain research. Thanks to Draaisma's unerring eye and elegant, engaging style, the case histories of Asperger, Bonnet, Capgras, Clérambault, Korsakoff and Gilles de la Tourette syndromes; Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; the areas of Broca and Brodmann; Jackson's epilepsy; and the Gage matrix are all brought to life and transformed into unforgettable tales.

Contents:

Cover; DISTURBANCES OF THE MIND; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Not the Draaisma syndrome; One: Towards dusk the images appear: Bonnet syndrome; 'A most remarkable case'; Bonnet's statue; The name: the baptismal text; Eye and brain; 'Abide with me; fast falls the eventide'; The brain as theatre; Two: A tormenting round of tremors: Parkinson's disease; Parkinson & Son; An Essay on the Shaking Palsy; 'Maladie de Parkinson'; Substantia nigra; Three: Phineas Gage's posthumous stroll: the Gage matrix; 'This melancholy affair'; The resurrection of Phineas Gage

Phineas Gage: the Damasio version'A modern Phineas Gage'; The somatic marker; Descartes' dream; I think, therefore I am; Passions of the soul; Damasio's panorama; Four: The Celestine prophesy: Broca's area; Monsieur Tan; A neuropolitical minefield; Dax's area; Broca's Rule; The splendid seventies; Civilized asymmetry; Society of Mutual Autopsy; Five: Sparks from a Leyden jar: Jackson's epilepsy; Six horses abreast; The brain as battery; Dreamy state of Dr Z; 'Pig, brute, stupid idiot!' Mrs B asks if you will please sit down; Dissolution; Fabric of language; Mr Jackson of London

Six: Siberian brandy: Korsakoff syndromeReally nothing wrong; All the strings that have ever vibrated; Thiamine; Wernicke-Korsakoff; Unconscious sphere of psychological life; Seven: Go to hell, idiot! Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; Chaos of the choreas; Marquise of Dampierre; Confidences of a tiqueur; Leeches, showers and straitjackets; And then came haloperidol; 1,500 francs' worth of walking sticks; Eight: A labyrinth of tangles: Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer, neuropathologist; A trail of cigarette butts; Plaques and tangles; 'We sit here so happy together'; The Linnaeus of psychiatry

War and nervesAlzheimer's diseases; Nine: The Mercator of neurology: Brodmann's areas; Brain maps; The atlas maior of neurology; Brodmann's topography; The ape sulcus; The visual argument; He could only look down his microscope; Krupp steel; Ten: The headquarters of madness: Clérambault syndrome; Erotomania; The headquarters of madness; Hysterical, frigid, perverse, degenerate; A parade of women; DSM-IV code 197.1; A physician's memories of a cataract operation; 'I am a finished man'; Eleven: A cup of tea for the doppelgänger: Capgras syndrome; Mathilde de Rio-Branco; A mind that found itself

An extra cup of teaCross-over; Twelve: Little professors: Asperger syndrome; 'Difficult children'; Fritz V; 'Intelligent automata'; Asperger and Kanner; Refrigerator mothers; Theory of mind; Poor Kate; Thirteen: The Cardan suspension of science; Stigler's law; The statistical universe; According to expectations; Docility of facts; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-92738-8

1-139-93038-9

1-139-93174-1

1-139-92954-2

1-139-93376-0

1-139-93696-4

1-139-93927-0

1-139-19327-9